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

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

3. To what does Charlotte compare people who die?
(a) Animals who are born.
(b) The stars' patterns.
(c) Geese who migrate.
(d) The revolving earth.

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

5. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?
(a) Very little.
(b) Continuous post cards.
(c) Almost weekly letters.
(d) He never hears from Saranza again in his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shatters when Pashka touches it?

2. Why does the narrator's mother go to the hospital?

3. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?

4. What does the narrator have difficulty reconciling?

5. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator end up staying in a tomb for a while?

6. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

7. How does the narrator's encounter with the girl with russet-colored hair occur and how does it work out between them?

8. How does Pashka almost drown once?

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

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

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