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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Pashka become jealous?
(a) A mechanic who steals his girlfriend.
(b) A soldier who steals his girlfriend.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The newest math whiz in school.

2. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?
(a) Their talking to him about their lives.
(b) Their dreams.
(c) Their names.
(d) Their being nude.

3. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?
(a) Speaks a long monologue in French.
(b) Breaks through the ice.
(c) Takes the parrots to the pond for a bath.
(d) Work out complicated mathematical problems.

4. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?
(a) In a plate glass window of the grocery store.
(b) In the bathroom mirror as he shaves.
(c) From the window of the train.
(d) In a reflection in a car side mirror.

5. Who surrounds Charlotte and asks for money?
(a) No one.
(b) Orphan children.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Samovars.

6. Why does the narrator's mother go to the hospital?
(a) To visit her best friend.
(b) For tests.
(c) To visit a dying aunt.
(d) To apply for a job.

7. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She is unhappy.
(c) She wants to leave Russia.
(d) He can learn nothing else about France from her.

8. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A watch.
(b) A carburetor.
(c) A radio.
(d) A Klashnikov rifle.

9. Who comes home from boarding school?
(a) The narrator's best friend's sister.
(b) No one.
(c) The narrator's neighbor's daughter.
(d) The narrator's sister.

10. What arrives from the Prefecture de Police?
(a) A package.
(b) A letter from Charlotte.
(c) An arrest warrant.
(d) A request for information.

11. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?
(a) They are not biologically related.
(b) They are complete opposites in all ways.
(c) They have no needs for words to communicate with each other.
(d) They do not really like each other.

12. What is the narrator learning with his class?
(a) Sequencing movements.
(b) Braille.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) First aid.

13. With whom does the narrator make love?
(a) The prostitute the soldiers had engaged.
(b) The blond-haired girl.
(c) No one.
(d) The girl with the russet-colored hair.

14. What does the narrator spend days doing?
(a) Writing his memoir.
(b) Reading Russian history books.
(c) Writing his sister.
(d) Shopping in antique stores.

15. What does the narrator do upon returning to Russia?
(a) Applies for a job with the University
(b) Joins the military.
(c) Reads books on France.
(d) Starts the process of obtaining French citizenship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has the narrator just quit a job?

2. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?

3. Why does the narrator wander around France?

4. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

5. Where does the narrator spend days?

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