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 WWII.
(c) The adults' conversation about Albertine.
(d) The adults' conversation about the economy.

3. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(b) Near a crematorium.
(c) They were mannequins; not bodies.
(d) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.

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

5. What do the adults not understand about Charlotte?
(a) If she loves France.
(b) Why she marries a French ex-patriot.
(c) Why she marrys a Russian peasant.
(d) Why she would spend her life in Siberia.

6. What does Albertine's family not understand?
(a) Why she wants to return to France.
(b) Why she is friendly with the narrator's family.
(c) Why she would stay in Russia.
(d) Why she refuses to learn French.

7. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?
(a) Write prospective families to convince them to adopt the chilren.
(b) Apply to emmigrate to the United States.
(c) Steal food from the local grocer.
(d) Visit a cemetery at midnight.

8. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?
(a) France.
(b) The Gulag.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The United States.

9. Why does Charlotte's father take off in his carriage?
(a) To chase after a very contagious patient.
(b) To get to Moscow and leave Russia.
(c) To rush to his ill grandson's bedside.
(d) To warn the protesting workers.

10. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) The Verdun.
(b) A tissue.
(c) A rosary.
(d) A newpaper clipping.

11. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is on the front somewhere.
(c) He is alive and at their village.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?
(a) Forgets to leave a note for Fyodor.
(b) Forgets their papers.
(c) Forgets the dog.
(d) Grabs the Siberian Suitcase.

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

14. What does Charlotte do on the front lines?
(a) Sews clothing for the soldiers.
(b) Works as a nurse.
(c) Drives an ambulance.
(d) Cooks.

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