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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 is Charlotte's response to the children's request?
(a) She agrees wholeheartedly.
(b) She says she would never go to the United States.
(c) She says stealing is wrong.
(d) She says the families already have too many children.

2. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Tell the children to go outside and play.
(b) Pass the vodka around.
(c) Put the children to bed.
(d) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.

3. What does Charlotte's father hear from a peasant?
(a) That food was going to be in short supply that winter.
(b) That there were sightings of ghosts wandering the village.
(c) That the potato crop had rotted.
(d) That demonstrators would be shot in the square.

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

5. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) To keep from having to return to the front.
(b) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(c) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(d) He enjoys the sight of his blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?

2. Upon what does Albertine depend?

3. Who is Charlotte?

4. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?

5. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens each time Albertine and Charlotte return to Russia from France?

3. What story about Charlotte and Fyodor does the narrator recall?

4. What happens after the death of Norbert?

5. Why does the narrator break into his grandmother's Siberian Suitcase?

6. What does the narrator find interesting about the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes"?

7. What is the story does the narrator relate about Charlotte's rock collection?

8. What does the narrator say about what makes French women alluring in photographs?

9. What does the narrator say his grandmother does when the narrator looks at the photo of the scruffy woman?

10. What is one of the childhood memories of Charlotte's that has left an impact on the narrator?

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