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

2. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) The Siberian suitcase.
(b) Several months unpaid rent.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her dog.

3. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?
(a) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(b) In the context of the French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of WWI.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

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

5. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He goes to the library.
(b) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.
(c) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(d) He records his grandmother's stories.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

3. How does one soldier get his leg full of splinters?

4. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?

5. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?

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

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

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

7. About what do others continue to speculate?

8. What happens after the death of Norbert?

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

10. Why does the narrator become outraged?

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