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

2. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) Several months unpaid rent.
(b) Her dog.
(c) The Siberian suitcase.
(d) Nothing.

3. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?
(a) 13.
(b) It is not stated.
(c) 18.
(d) 9.

4. Where is Fyodor taken for reintegration?
(a) The Gulag.
(b) Moscow.
(c) No where.
(d) Leningrad.

5. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) He enjoys the sight of his blood.
(b) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(c) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(d) To keep from having to return to the front.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

2. Who is Gavrilych?

3. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?

4. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sergei find another way for the family to flee and what does Charlotte realize as they do so?

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

3. What happens after the death of Norbert?

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

5. Why does the narrator become outraged?

6. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

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

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

10. What political importance is lost to the children?

(see the answer keys)

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