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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?
(a) Albertine.
(b) WWII.
(c) The French revolution.
(d) Charlotte.

4. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Measles.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Scarlett fever.

5. Who is Sergei?
(a) Charlotte's best friend's brother.
(b) Fyodor's brother.
(c) The town mayor.
(d) Charlotte's son.

6. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.
(b) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(c) The sight of elderly people freezing to death on the side of the road.
(d) The sight of several very young children being shot for stealing.

7. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) The Siberian suitcase.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Several months unpaid rent.
(d) Nothing.

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

9. How does one soldier get his leg full of splinters?
(a) A tree explodes near him.
(b) Being bombed while holding a wooden spoon.
(c) Sliding down a rough board into a trench.
(d) There is nothing mentioned about a man with splinters.

10. What does Charlotte start believing about her husband?
(a) That he is in France.
(b) That he has become involved with another woman.
(c) That he went to Siberia.
(d) That he is still alive.

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

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

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

14. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?
(a) A huge trunk in the attic.
(b) The armoire.
(c) The Siberian Suitcase.
(d) The Mongolian Suitcase.

15. Upon what does Albertine depend?
(a) Her son's love.
(b) Her family's largesse.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Government subsidies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?

2. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?

3. Who is described as an absolute monarch?

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

5. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?

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