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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 outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?
(a) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) That the French believe Russians are inferior.
(c) That the Russians copy French fashion instead of creating their own fashions.
(d) That the Russians believe the French are superior.

2. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The sound of French singing.
(b) The French foods on the menu Charlotte has saved.
(c) The uniform of the French palace guards.
(d) The sight of hundreds of place settings set up for a state visit.

3. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?
(a) Teaching French.
(b) Begging on the street corner.
(c) Drawing portraits.
(d) Sweeping the school's hallways.

4. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(b) The Frenchmen.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) No one.

5. Why does Charlotte's father take off in his carriage?
(a) To warn the protesting workers.
(b) To get to Moscow and leave Russia.
(c) To rush to his ill grandson's bedside.
(d) To chase after a very contagious patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does one soldier get his leg full of splinters?

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

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

4. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?

5. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

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

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

9. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

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