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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?
(a) The laundry women.
(b) The babushkas.
(c) None.
(d) The secretaries.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.
(b) France and Russia.
(c) The upper and lower classes in France.
(d) The upper and lower classes in Russia.

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

8. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.
(b) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.
(c) Not understanding Russian culture.
(d) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.

9. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(b) He enjoys the sight of his blood.
(c) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(d) To keep from having to return to the front.

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

11. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?
(a) The glint of the floodwaters.
(b) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(c) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(d) The boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.

12. 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.

13. Who is described as an absolute monarch?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) King Louis XVIII.
(c) Tsar Nicholas II.
(d) Catherine the Great.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is married to Norbert?

2. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?

3. What does Albertine not have in Russia?

4. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?

5. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?

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