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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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. What does Charlotte's father hear from a peasant?
(a) That demonstrators would be shot in the square.
(b) That there were sightings of ghosts wandering the village.
(c) That the potato crop had rotted.
(d) That food was going to be in short supply that winter.

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

6. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?
(a) To see if she wants to move back to Russia.
(b) To help on a Red Cross mission.
(c) To visit her uncle and aunt.
(d) To visit Albertine.

7. What does Charlotte see one day after she has been to the market buying spices?
(a) Her daughter being hit by a car.
(b) Her son being hit by a car.
(c) A vision of a pure Russia.
(d) Her husband walking down the street.

8. 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.

9. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Vapid.
(b) Nurturing.
(c) Submissive.
(d) Strong.

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

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

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

13. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The French foods on the menu Charlotte has saved.
(b) The sight of hundreds of place settings set up for a state visit.
(c) The sound of French singing.
(d) The uniform of the French palace guards.

14. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Put the children to bed.
(b) Tell the children to go outside and play.
(c) Pass the vodka around.
(d) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.

15. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?
(a) It leaves half of its cars on the track.
(b) Nothing unusual.
(c) It inexplicably leaves on time despite bombs falling.
(d) It is stopped from leaving the station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

2. Who is Charlotte?

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

4. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?

5. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?

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