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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is there an open-air dance floor?
(a) At the Mountain of Joy.
(b) In the town square.
(c) In the stadium.
(d) In Moscow's central park.

3. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) The executioner.
(d) The soldiers.

4. What are the tekhnars?
(a) A group of Russian soldiers trained as assassins.
(b) One of the smaller cliques in the narrator's school.
(c) A group of Russian soldiers trained as spies.
(d) Mongolians who have settled in Siberia.

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

6. Why is the narrator not allowed to travel to the USSR?
(a) He was granted refugee status.
(b) He is allowed to travel to Russia.
(c) He is wanted for treason.
(d) He relinquished his Russian citizenship.

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

8. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) Joining his sister in Leningrad.
(b) Living in France.
(c) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.
(d) Becoming a famous writer.

9. To what does the narrator become attracted?
(a) A girl with russet-colored hair.
(b) The idea of moving to the United States.
(c) Communism.
(d) A blond-haired older woman.

10. What does the narrator do that makes him feel comforted?
(a) Eats ten chocolate bars.
(b) Lies down with his head on a velvet prie-dieu.
(c) Drinks a bottle of absinthe.
(d) Picks up a woman.

11. What does the narrator spend his time doing?
(a) Writing biographical notes.
(b) Working for a meal.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Panhandling.

12. 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.

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

14. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?
(a) To summon a taxi.
(b) To pull Pashka out of the water.
(c) To pull himself onto the roof of the school.
(d) To hide his birthmark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses the narrator about Beria?

2. What does the narrator often have with himself?

3. Who is Pashka?

4. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?

5. What does the narrator do upon returning to Russia?

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