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

2. Who is described as an absolute monarch?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Tsar Nicholas II.
(c) King Louis XVIII.
(d) Catherine the Great.

3. What does Charlotte's father hear from a peasant?
(a) That demonstrators would be shot in the square.
(b) That there were sightings of ghosts wandering the village.
(c) That food was going to be in short supply that winter.
(d) That the potato crop had rotted.

4. To what village does Charlotte return?
(a) Lesosibirsk.
(b) Dno.
(c) Boyarsk.
(d) Sertolovo.

5. How many of Charlotte's tales does the narrator write about that have had a strong impact on him?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?

2. What does Sergei notice being loaded?

3. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?

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

5. Where is Charlotte supposed to lay an object?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. About what do others continue to speculate?

4. What does the narrator spend a lot of time doing and what is one photograph that seems out of place?

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

6. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

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

8. Where does Albertine retreat?

9. What happens after the death of Norbert?

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

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