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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Playing tennis.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Looking through old photo albums.

2. Why does Charlotte's father take off in his carriage?
(a) To get to Moscow and leave Russia.
(b) To chase after a very contagious patient.
(c) To rush to his ill grandson's bedside.
(d) To warn the protesting workers.

3. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?
(a) As a man always on the wrong side of the law.
(b) As wealthy and well respected.
(c) As a morphine addict.
(d) As a religious and holy man.

4. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?
(a) In viewing the interaction between King Phillip and Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) In viewing the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes."
(c) In reading a book about Russia written by an American author.
(d) In reading a book about Russia written by an English author.

5. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?
(a) 13.
(b) It is not stated.
(c) 18.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the adults not understand about Charlotte?

2. At what is hinted in this chapter about Fyodor?

3. Who is Charlotte?

4. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?

5. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sergei find another way for the family to flee and what does Charlotte realize as they do so?

2. What political importance is lost to the children?

3. What does Charlotte do during the war and how does she react to her work?

4. How does missing a train save Charlotte and her children's lives?

5. What happens when the narrator and his sister go for oranges?

6. How does Charlotte end up returning to Russia and what is her response when she arrives there?

7. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

8. How does Albertine surprise Charlotte one day and what is left behind?

9. What is the narrator allowed to do when he is 14?

10. What memories of women does the narrator think about?

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