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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 arrives from the Prefecture de Police?
(a) A request for information.
(b) A package.
(c) An arrest warrant.
(d) A letter from Charlotte.

2. Who moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's paternal grandmother.
(b) The narrator's first cousin.
(c) The narrator's maternal aunt.
(d) The narrator's paternal aunt.

3. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
(a) In his ability as a story teller.
(b) In his knowledge of French history.
(c) In his skills as a writer.
(d) In his skills as a painter.

4. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?
(a) Stories about fishing.
(b) Stories about the early founding of the United States.
(c) Russian history.
(d) French history.

5. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.
(b) Becoming a famous writer.
(c) Living in France.
(d) Joining his sister in Leningrad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?

2. Where does the narrator spend days?

3. Who is Beria?

4. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?

5. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator feel when he is staying in the tombs and what symptoms did he think he had?

2. Why does the narrator think he is being accepted by his classmates, what does he see as the three types of cliques in a crowd and how does his acceptance affect his writing?

3. What does the narrator learn from Mr. Bond about Charlotte in the last chapter?

4. How does the narrator imagine Charlotte in France and what does he do that he does not usually do when preparing for her visit?

5. Why does the narrator begin to write Charlotte's life and what does he want to know about her as he is writing?

6. What does the narrator do about three years after staying in the tombs and why was it difficult to do? How did he overcome the difficulty?

7. How does the narrator feel about the women in the photo and how does he try to return to the comfort of his childhood?

8. Why does the narrator feel guilty concerning his grandmother?

9. What does the narrator relate about a man named Beria?

10. What does the narrator do after he accidentally insults a girl at a dance?

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