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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?
(a) A sense of belonging.
(b) A sense of purpose.
(c) The ability to lift his mood.
(d) The ability to feel eternal.

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

8. How does Charlotte become pregnant?
(a) She is gang raped.
(b) She seduces the young minister at her church.
(c) No one knows.
(d) She has an affair.

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

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

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

12. What arrives from the Prefecture de Police?
(a) A package.
(b) An arrest warrant.
(c) A letter from Charlotte.
(d) A request for information.

13. What has the narrator just done three years in the future after finding his temporary home?
(a) Married.
(b) Moved to the United States.
(c) Published his first book.
(d) Moved back to Russia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator spend his time doing?

2. Where is there an open-air dance floor?

3. What was a problem many publishers have with the narrator's manuscript?

4. Where has the narrator just quit a job?

5. Who is Pashka?

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