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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?
(a) Mandatory public schooling for all Russians.
(b) The loss of much of Russia's land that borders China.
(c) Thousands of deaths.
(d) New restrictions on the Russian Orthodox church.

2. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The milkmaid.
(c) No one.
(d) The odd girl next door.

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

4. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Apples.
(d) Bread.

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

6. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?
(a) That the Russians believe the French are superior.
(b) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.
(c) That the Russians copy French fashion instead of creating their own fashions.
(d) That the French believe Russians are inferior.

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

8. Who is Norbert?
(a) The narrator's uncle.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's great-grandfather.
(d) The narrator's neighbor.

9. What does Sergei notice being loaded?
(a) A large ocean-going vessel.
(b) A freight train.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A cart and horse.

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

11. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(b) A banned book.
(c) An apple.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) Her coloring books.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) The mailbox.
(d) Her toybox.

13. At what is hinted in this chapter about Fyodor?
(a) That he is arrested.
(b) That he is abusive to his wife.
(c) That he badly wanted to move to France.
(d) That he works for the KGB.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?

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

3. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?

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

5. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?

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