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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 Albertine not have in Russia?
(a) Money.
(b) A job.
(c) Family.
(d) Friends.

2. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Vapid.
(b) Nurturing.
(c) Submissive.
(d) Strong.

3. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?
(a) His maternal grandmother.
(b) His paternal grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His mother's sister.

4. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) France and Russia.
(b) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(c) The upper and lower classes in France.
(d) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.

5. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?
(a) A peasant dress.
(b) An expensive skirt suit.
(c) A sari.
(d) A man's shapka.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Albertine leave behind?

3. What type of women does the narrator say are so alluring?

4. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?

5. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator become outraged?

4. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

5. What happens after the death of Norbert?

6. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

7. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

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

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

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