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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?
(a) The French revolution.
(b) WWII.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Albertine.

2. What stops if a child wanders into the room where the adults are talking?
(a) The adults' conversation about Charlotte.
(b) The adults' conversation about Albertine.
(c) The adults' conversation about the economy.
(d) The adults' conversation about WWII.

3. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Life in the United States.
(b) Finding people to adopt them.
(c) Supernatural experiences.
(d) Food.

4. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Scarlett fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Measles.

5. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?
(a) His mother's.
(b) His son's.
(c) His lover's.
(d) No one; he dies alone.

6. To where do the narrator and his sister return?
(a) To their grandmother's Dachau.
(b) To their own town.
(c) To Paris.
(d) To Moscow.

7. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?
(a) A young couple.
(b) No one.
(c) Albertine.
(d) Several teens.

8. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of elderly people freezing to death on the side of the road.
(b) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.
(c) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(d) The sight of several very young children being shot for stealing.

9. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?
(a) Just before Albertine dies in the hospital.
(b) When Albertine goes to a rehab hospital.
(c) When Albertine climbs into a cab to go to the airport to visit France.
(d) When Albertine leaves for Russia for one last visit.

10. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?
(a) Feather.
(b) Rock.
(c) Coin.
(d) Ornaments.

11. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?
(a) His Russian uncle.
(b) His Russian grandmother.
(c) His maiden aunt.
(d) His French grandmother.

12. Who is Sergei?
(a) The town mayor.
(b) Fyodor's brother.
(c) Charlotte's son.
(d) Charlotte's best friend's brother.

13. Who is Gavrilych?
(a) A milkman.
(b) A mail carrier.
(c) A retired Russian artillery man.
(d) The town drunk where the narrator's grandmother lives.

14. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?
(a) To separate fantasy from reality.
(b) To enjoy returning to England after the summer is over.
(c) To enjoy their visits to Russia.
(d) To understand their Russian grandfather.

15. What is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?
(a) A piece of clothe from her deceased father's funeral outfit.
(b) The Verdun.
(c) A fragment from the bomb that killed her son.
(d) The English cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

2. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?

3. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?

4. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?

5. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?

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