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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 is married to Norbert?
(a) Albertine.
(b) It is not specified.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Constantine.

2. How old is Charlotte the last time she speaks to Albertine?
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 11.

3. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?
(a) The Gulag.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Siberia.

4. Who is Sergei?
(a) Fyodor's brother.
(b) The town mayor.
(c) Charlotte's best friend's brother.
(d) Charlotte's son.

5. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?
(a) To separate fantasy from reality.
(b) To enjoy their visits to Russia.
(c) To understand their Russian grandfather.
(d) To enjoy returning to England after the summer is over.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

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

3. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?

4. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?

5. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

4. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

5. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

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

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

8. What is the narrator allowed to do when he is 14?

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

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

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