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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?
(a) She lies down and sobs.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She turns and runs out of the picture.
(d) She refuses to answer any questions.

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

3. Who is Felix Faure?
(a) A famous French author.
(b) A infamous murderer.
(c) The French ambassador to Russia.
(d) The French president.

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

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

6. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?
(a) As a religious and holy man.
(b) As a morphine addict.
(c) As a man always on the wrong side of the law.
(d) As wealthy and well respected.

7. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Pass the vodka around.
(b) Tell the children to go outside and play.
(c) Put the children to bed.
(d) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.

8. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?
(a) No one.
(b) Albertine.
(c) A young couple.
(d) Several teens.

9. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?
(a) The Russians decide to join the war effort and support England.
(b) Bombs begin to drop in Russia.
(c) Charlotte miscarries.
(d) Charlotte gives birth.

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

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

12. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.
(b) He goes to the library.
(c) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(d) He records his grandmother's stories.

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

14. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Food.
(b) Finding people to adopt them.
(c) Supernatural experiences.
(d) Life in the United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?

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

3. What does Albertine's family not understand?

4. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

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