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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 believe Russians are inferior.
(c) That the Russians believe the French are superior.
(d) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.

4. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?
(a) The young people.
(b) Her great-grandfather.
(c) A Russian seer.
(d) A shrine where miracles often happen.

5. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?
(a) Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) President Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Peter the Great.

6. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A banned book.
(c) An apple.
(d) Their experience at their grandmother's home.

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

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

9. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?
(a) They have already received their rations.
(b) The others in the line think they intend to cheat.
(c) They have no ration cards.
(d) They are too young.

10. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?
(a) She says stealing is wrong.
(b) She agrees wholeheartedly.
(c) She says the families already have too many children.
(d) She says she would never go to the United States.

11. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?
(a) Sweeping the school's hallways.
(b) Drawing portraits.
(c) Begging on the street corner.
(d) Teaching French.

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

13. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(b) They were mannequins; not bodies.
(c) Near a crematorium.
(d) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.

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

15. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?
(a) He is 25.
(b) He is 22.
(c) He is 14.
(d) He is 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Albertine depend?

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

3. Who is Norbert?

4. Who is Charlotte?

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

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