View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How old is Charlotte the last time she speaks to Albertine?
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 11.

6. From what does Charlotte's husband die?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Suicide.
(c) War wounds.
(d) Heart attack.

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

8. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?
(a) Bombs begin to drop in Russia.
(b) Charlotte gives birth.
(c) Charlotte miscarries.
(d) The Russians decide to join the war effort and support England.

9. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) It is not stated.
(d) 9.

10. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?
(a) Decides to leave immediately for France.
(b) Decides to leave immediately for Russia.
(c) Write for help to her mother.
(d) Inject herself with too much morphine.

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

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

13. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?
(a) Newer ones.
(b) Smaller ones.
(c) Older ones.
(d) Larger ones.

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

15. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Looking through old photo albums.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Playing tennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?

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

3. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?

4. What does Albertine's family not understand?

5. Upon what does Albertine depend?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 477 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample