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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator targeted by bullies at his school?
(a) He has a large, visible birthmark on his face.
(b) He likes to talk to the girls more than the guys.
(c) He shows no interest in sports and movies.
(d) He has no shoes.

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

3. Who is Beria?
(a) The crazy man next door to the narrator.
(b) The narrator's mother's uncle.
(c) A French baker.
(d) A Russian leader who stalks women.

4. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?
(a) To France.
(b) To Moscow.
(c) To England.
(d) To Leningrad.

5. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?
(a) The narrator does not lie.
(b) To placate Pashka.
(c) To appear more knowledgeable.
(d) To convince Pashka to do something for the narrator.

6. What does the narrator now enjoy?
(a) Playing pool.
(b) Going to the church and sitting.
(c) Going to the library.
(d) Much freedom.

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

8. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) A private-duty nurse.
(b) A car to rent.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A villa to recuperate from surgery.

9. What has the narrator just done three years in the future after finding his temporary home?
(a) Married.
(b) Published his first book.
(c) Moved back to Russia.
(d) Moved to the United States.

10. What does Pashka demand to know from the narrator?
(a) If the king rewards the boy.
(b) Why the boy is being executed.
(c) What happens to the young, French boy.
(d) Why the king's life is in danger.

11. What happens one day to Pashka?
(a) He has a heart attack.
(b) He is fired.
(c) He nearly drowns for real.
(d) He solves a math problem no one has done before.

12. How does the narrator feel as he is wandering the streets near his temporary home?
(a) Curious.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Numb.
(d) Paranoid.

13. Where does the narrator spend days?
(a) In the public library.
(b) At the French embassy.
(c) In day boot camp.
(d) In a training class for teachers.

14. What does the narrator invent in order to publish his book?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A translator.
(c) A home address.
(d) A contact in the publishing business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Pashka become jealous?

2. To what does the narrator become attracted?

3. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?

4. What calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?

5. Why does the narrator wander around France?

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