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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 does the narrator often have with himself?
(a) Confidence-building sessions.
(b) Long, imaginary conversations with his father.
(c) Long, imaginary conversations with Charlotte.
(d) Long, imaginary conversations with his mother.

2. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A carburetor.
(b) A watch.
(c) A radio.
(d) A Klashnikov rifle.

3. What shatters when Pashka touches it?
(a) The stained glass in the foyer of the school.
(b) An accordian which is very old.
(c) A glass flower vase.
(d) The ice on the lake.

4. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?
(a) Breaks through the ice.
(b) Work out complicated mathematical problems.
(c) Speaks a long monologue in French.
(d) Takes the parrots to the pond for a bath.

5. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?
(a) Tank soldiers who stand at attention.
(b) The ability of the best athlete at his school.
(c) His younger brother's talent.
(d) The blonde-haired girl's boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young French boy want to do with his watch?

2. To where does Pashka invite the narrator?

3. What does Pashka demand to know from the narrator?

4. What does Pashka ask of the narrator?

5. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

3. How does the narrator's interest in Russia cause him problems?

4. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

5. How does Pashka almost drown once?

6. Who is the only person in the narrator's class who treats him kindly?

7. What do the narrator and Pashka do on their fishing trips?

8. What does Charlotte's last story for the narrator tell him?

9. Who does the narrator notice while doing sequences and what does he notice about her?

10. What catches the narrator's attention almost obsessively?

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