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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator learn months later from Mr. Bond?
(a) Charlotte is very ill.
(b) Charlotte died in September a year earlier.
(c) Charlotte has moved to Moscow.
(d) Charlotte is under arrest.

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

7. What is the narrator learning with his class?
(a) Sequencing movements.
(b) First aid.
(c) Braille.
(d) Carpentry.

8. What story does the narrator tell about a young French boy?
(a) The boy is sentenced to death.
(b) The boy saves the king's life.
(c) The boy won a world-wide contest.
(d) The boy almost kills the king despite all the guards.

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

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

11. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His teachers.
(b) The executioner.
(c) His mother.
(d) The soldiers.

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

13. What does the narrator say has happened in France since Charlotte has visited the country?
(a) Change.
(b) It is still the same.
(c) People are kinder.
(d) People are meaner.

14. What does the narrator want of Mr. Bond?
(a) To give him some more information on Russian history.
(b) To sponsor the narrator to come to Russia.
(c) To treat a bad knee.
(d) To learn if Charlotte is still alive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?

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

3. What calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?

4. How long does the narrator spend in France after leaving his grandmother for the last time?

5. What does the narrator often have with himself?

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