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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 seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The sight of hundreds of place settings set up for a state visit.
(b) The sound of French singing.
(c) The French foods on the menu Charlotte has saved.
(d) The uniform of the French palace guards.

2. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?
(a) A shrine where miracles often happen.
(b) A Russian seer.
(c) Her great-grandfather.
(d) The young people.

3. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?
(a) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(b) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(c) The glint of the floodwaters.
(d) The boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.

4. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?
(a) It leaves half of its cars on the track.
(b) It inexplicably leaves on time despite bombs falling.
(c) It is stopped from leaving the station.
(d) Nothing unusual.

5. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?
(a) Forgets to leave a note for Fyodor.
(b) Forgets their papers.
(c) Forgets the dog.
(d) Grabs the Siberian Suitcase.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?

2. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

3. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?

4. What does Charlotte see one day after she has been to the market buying spices?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

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

4. What story captures the narrator's imagination concerning Tsar Nicholas II?

5. What happens after the death of Norbert?

6. What political importance is lost to the children?

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

8. Where does the narrator go for the summer and what is a tale she relates to the narrator on his first night there?

9. What happens after the children are put to bed?

10. Why does the narrator become outraged?

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