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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Nothing.
(c) An apple.
(d) A banned book.

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

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

4. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?
(a) An expensive skirt suit.
(b) A sari.
(c) A man's shapka.
(d) A peasant dress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. To what village does Charlotte return?
(a) Dno.
(b) Boyarsk.
(c) Lesosibirsk.
(d) Sertolovo.

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlotte's father's occupation?

2. What does Sergei notice being loaded?

3. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?

4. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?

5. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?

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