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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. Who is Charlotte's first love?
(a) Her brother's best friend.
(b) The man who gives Charlotte the Verdun.
(c) Her second cousin.
(d) Her first husband.

2. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?
(a) She knows the head of the KGB in that area.
(b) She gives birth.
(c) She is ill with Tuberculosis.
(d) She is the mistress of the captain of the police.

3. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A car to rent.
(c) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
(d) A private-duty nurse.

4. Who is the woman in the shapka?
(a) Charlotte's aunt.
(b) The narrator's sister.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) Charlotte's daughter.

5. Who is Mr. Bond?
(a) The mayor of Saranza.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A private detective.
(d) A professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens one day to Pashka?

2. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?

3. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?

4. With whom does the narrator make love?

5. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Pashka feel about the narrator's new popularity and what does Pashka do about it?

7. What does the narrator begin to learn in Chapter 12 in class to protect the fatherland and how does he feel about the process of learning this?

8. How does Pashka almost drown once?

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

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

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