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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Charlotte?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's Russian grandmother.
(c) The narrator's French grandmother.
(d) The narrator's teacher.

2. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(c) No one.
(d) The Frenchmen.

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

4. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?
(a) In viewing the interaction between King Phillip and Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) In reading a book about Russia written by an American author.
(c) In reading a book about Russia written by an English author.
(d) In viewing the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes."

5. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?
(a) His paternal grandmother.
(b) His maternal grandmother.
(c) His mother's sister.
(d) His mother.

6. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Albertine.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Charlotte.

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

8. Why does Albertine become lost to the world?
(a) Because of her dependence on morphine.
(b) Because of Russia's policy towards ex-patriots.
(c) Because of France's policy towards ex-patriots.
(d) Because of the death of her mother.

9. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?
(a) The Russian laundress.
(b) The town spy.
(c) The milkmaid.
(d) The narrator's grandmother.

10. Where is Fyodor taken for reintegration?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) No where.
(d) The Gulag.

11. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?
(a) He gets stuck in the chimney.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He dies of a heart attack.
(d) He is shot.

12. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?
(a) She turns and runs out of the picture.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She lies down and sobs.
(d) She refuses to answer any questions.

13. Who is Felix Faure?
(a) A famous French author.
(b) The French ambassador to Russia.
(c) The French president.
(d) A infamous murderer.

14. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?
(a) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(b) In the context of the French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of WWI.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

15. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Several months unpaid rent.
(d) The Siberian suitcase.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?

2. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

3. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?

4. What stops if a child wanders into the room where the adults are talking?

5. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

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