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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pashka ask of the narrator?
(a) To stay and look at the stars.
(b) To introduce him to a girl.
(c) To teach him to dance.
(d) To lend him some money.

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

4. What was a problem many publishers have with the narrator's manuscript?
(a) It has many errors due to translation problems.
(b) It is hand written.
(c) No problems.
(d) He is a Russian writing in French.

5. What does the narrator often have with himself?
(a) Long, imaginary conversations with his mother.
(b) Confidence-building sessions.
(c) Long, imaginary conversations with his father.
(d) Long, imaginary conversations with Charlotte.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What causes Pashka to cry?
(a) Failing to solve an easy math problem in a contest.
(b) Being told he is stupid.
(c) Cutting his hand.
(d) Hearing the story about the young French boy.

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

14. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?
(a) She is ill with Tuberculosis.
(b) She gives birth.
(c) She knows the head of the KGB in that area.
(d) She is the mistress of the captain of the police.

15. What does the narrator have difficulty reconciling?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His feelings for girls and his dependence on his grandmother.
(c) His feelings for girls with his friendships with the boys.
(d) The two halves of the prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?

2. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?

3. What shatters when Pashka touches it?

4. To where does Pashka invite the narrator?

5. What does the narrator see that reminds him of Charlotte?

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