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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 happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?
(a) Charlotte miscarries.
(b) Charlotte gives birth.
(c) Bombs begin to drop in Russia.
(d) The Russians decide to join the war effort and support England.

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

3. Who is Charlotte?
(a) The narrator's Russian grandmother.
(b) The narrator's French grandmother.
(c) The narrator's teacher.
(d) The narrator's mother.

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

5. What does Charlotte start believing about her husband?
(a) That he has become involved with another woman.
(b) That he went to Siberia.
(c) That he is in France.
(d) That he is still alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where do the narrator and his sister return?

2. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?

3. Why does Charlotte's father take off in his carriage?

4. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?

5. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Albertine retreat?

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

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

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

6. What political importance is lost to the children?

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

8. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

10. What happens after the death of Norbert?

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