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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?
(a) Telling her she needs more make-up.
(b) Letting the school bully cut in on a dance.
(c) Being too intimate with her.
(d) Telling her he like her straight hair better than the curls she now sports.

3. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?
(a) He never hears from Saranza again in his life.
(b) Very little.
(c) Continuous post cards.
(d) Almost weekly letters.

4. Who comes home from boarding school?
(a) The narrator's neighbor's daughter.
(b) The narrator's best friend's sister.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) No one.

5. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A new jacket.
(d) A book about Russia.

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator temporarily call home?
(a) A tomb.
(b) A bathroom stall in the train station.
(c) A bathroom stall in the Paris airport.
(d) A clearing in a dense woods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman in the shapka?

2. What does Charlotte do after the young woman is killed?

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

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

5. Why does the narrator refuse to call or contact Charlotte?

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