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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. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The Spanish revolution.
(b) The Paris flood.
(c) The flood of the Danube.
(d) The Russian revolution.

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

3. 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 boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.
(c) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(d) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.

4. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Strong.
(c) Vapid.
(d) Nurturing.

5. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Food.
(b) Life in the United States.
(c) Finding people to adopt them.
(d) Supernatural experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is married to Norbert?

2. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

3. Where is Fyodor taken for reintegration?

4. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

2. What happens after the death of Norbert?

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

4. What happens when the narrator and his sister go for oranges?

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

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

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

8. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

9. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

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