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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. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?
(a) To visit Albertine.
(b) To see if she wants to move back to Russia.
(c) To visit her uncle and aunt.
(d) To help on a Red Cross mission.

2. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?
(a) She says the families already have too many children.
(b) She says stealing is wrong.
(c) She says she would never go to the United States.
(d) She agrees wholeheartedly.

3. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Bread.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Apples.

4. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) They were mannequins; not bodies.
(b) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(c) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.
(d) Near a crematorium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?

2. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?

3. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

4. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?

5. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political importance is lost to the children?

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

3. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

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

5. How does missing a train save Charlotte and her children's lives?

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

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

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

9. Why does the narrator become outraged?

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

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