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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. Where is Charlotte supposed to lay an object?
(a) On a shrine.
(b) On the kitchen counter.
(c) On a tombstone.
(d) Under her bed.

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

3. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?
(a) Measles.
(b) Scarlett fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Typhus.

4. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?
(a) As wealthy and well respected.
(b) As a religious and holy man.
(c) As a morphine addict.
(d) As a man always on the wrong side of the law.

5. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?
(a) The Mongolian Suitcase.
(b) The armoire.
(c) The Siberian Suitcase.
(d) A huge trunk in the attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Albertine become lost to the world?

2. What does Albertine leave behind?

3. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?

4. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the narrator become outraged?

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

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

9. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

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