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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 Charlotte start believing about her husband?
(a) That he is still alive.
(b) That he is in France.
(c) That he went to Siberia.
(d) That he has become involved with another woman.

2. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Nothing.
(b) An apple.
(c) A banned book.
(d) Their experience at their grandmother's home.

3. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) Her coloring books.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) Her toybox.
(d) The mailbox.

4. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?
(a) Bread.
(b) Apples.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Oranges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?

2. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?

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

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

5. How old is Charlotte the last time she speaks to Albertine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Charlotte meets up with a soldier while she is on her way to Boyarsk?

4. Where does Albertine retreat?

5. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

7. What political importance is lost to the children?

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

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

10. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

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