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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
(a) In his skills as a painter.
(b) In his ability as a story teller.
(c) In his knowledge of French history.
(d) In his skills as a writer.

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

3. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?
(a) The ability of the best athlete at his school.
(b) The blonde-haired girl's boyfriend.
(c) Tank soldiers who stand at attention.
(d) His younger brother's talent.

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

5. Who moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's first cousin.
(b) The narrator's paternal aunt.
(c) The narrator's paternal grandmother.
(d) The narrator's maternal aunt.

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

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

8. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) Living in France.
(b) Becoming a famous writer.
(c) Joining his sister in Leningrad.
(d) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.

9. Why does the narrator wander around France?
(a) For no reason.
(b) To visit several friends.
(c) To decide where he wants to buy a house.
(d) To write a travel book.

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

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

12. Why does the narrator refuse to call or contact Charlotte?
(a) He is afraid of hindering his application process.
(b) He is afraid of upsetting her.
(c) He is not sure she is really Charlotte.
(d) He is not allowed to have any contact with her.

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

14. 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.

15. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?
(a) Takes the parrots to the pond for a bath.
(b) Work out complicated mathematical problems.
(c) Breaks through the ice.
(d) Speaks a long monologue in French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charlotte's first love?

2. Who comes home from boarding school?

3. What causes Pashka to cry?

4. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?

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

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