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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Charlotte become pregnant?
(a) She seduces the young minister at her church.
(b) She is gang raped.
(c) She has an affair.
(d) No one knows.

2. What shatters when Pashka touches it?
(a) An accordian which is very old.
(b) A glass flower vase.
(c) The ice on the lake.
(d) The stained glass in the foyer of the school.

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

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

5. Who moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's maternal aunt.
(b) The narrator's paternal aunt.
(c) The narrator's paternal grandmother.
(d) The narrator's first cousin.

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

7. 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 king's life is in danger.
(d) Why the boy is being executed.

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

9. 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) Picks up a woman.
(d) Drinks a bottle of absinthe.

10. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the men's room.
(c) Down by the lake.
(d) Up in a tree.

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

12. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?
(a) The Gulags.
(b) Paris.
(c) Brest.
(d) Mongolia.

13. Who is Mr. Bond?
(a) The mayor of Saranza.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A private detective.
(d) A professor.

14. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?
(a) French history.
(b) Stories about fishing.
(c) Stories about the early founding of the United States.
(d) Russian history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator temporarily call home?

2. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?

3. How does the narrator feel as he is wandering the streets near his temporary home?

4. Why does the narrator help Pashka?

5. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?

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