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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The flood of the Danube.
(b) The Spanish revolution.
(c) The Paris flood.
(d) The Russian revolution.

6. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Paint them another color.
(c) Give it to kids in the neighborhood.
(d) Throw some of it out the window.

7. Who is married to Norbert?
(a) It is not specified.
(b) Constantine.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Albertine.

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

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

10. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(b) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.
(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.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?
(a) The milkmaid.
(b) The Russian laundress.
(c) The narrator's grandmother.
(d) The town spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?

2. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?

3. What is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?

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

5. Who is Sergei?

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