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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?
(a) A prostitute having sex with soldiers.
(b) A student at the school making out with an older woman.
(c) A student at the school have sex with a prostitute.
(d) A calf being born.

4. What does Charlotte do after the young woman is killed?
(a) Goes back to France.
(b) Adopts her baby.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Finds the young woman's family to give them her baby.

5. Who is the woman in the shapka?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Charlotte's aunt.
(c) Charlotte's daughter.
(d) The narrator's sister.

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

7. What does the narrator believe about the soldiers he watches?
(a) They were coerced into the military.
(b) They join the military seeking honor.
(c) They join the military seeking redemption.
(d) No outside thoughts can penetrate their minds.

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

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

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

11. About what does the narrator feel guilty?
(a) His sister having to leave.
(b) His father's death.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) His changed relationship with Charlotte.

12. 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.

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

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

15. Why does the narrator help Pashka?
(a) In return for Pashka's help with math.
(b) To feel useful.
(c) In return for Pashka's help getting the other students to like him.
(d) To show how superior he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?

2. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?

3. To what does the narrator become attracted?

4. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

5. What does the narrator do that makes him feel comforted?

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