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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A radio.
(b) A carburetor.
(c) A watch.
(d) A Klashnikov rifle.

4. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?
(a) Disappearing for hours at a time.
(b) Watching television all the time.
(c) Walking in the park for hours each day.
(d) Sleeping on the couch.

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?
(a) Working for his best friend's father.
(b) Joining the French Foreign Legion.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Writing his grandmother to ask for money.

9. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?
(a) Goes Hang gliding.
(b) Picks up a woman at a bar.
(c) Goes to the opera.
(d) Prays.

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

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

12. What confuses the narrator about Beria?
(a) How kindness make Beria more angry.
(b) How the baker loves to bake but not to eat.
(c) The narrator's response to Beria's heinous crimes.
(d) How he seems almost happy that the narrator's mother has died.

13. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?
(a) Her job.
(b) Fyodor's grave.
(c) Her status as a foreigner in the tiny village.
(d) Her friends.

14. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?
(a) Hold off on having surgery.
(b) Forget going to Russia since it's unstable.
(c) Go to England to conduct research at Oxford.
(d) Visit Charlotte.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shatters when Pashka touches it?

2. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?

3. What story does the narrator tell about a young French boy?

4. With whom does the narrator make love?

5. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?

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