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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 calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?
(a) Mindlessly following orders.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Running.
(d) Rowing.

2. Who is Pashka?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A math teacher.
(c) The headmaster at the narrator's school.
(d) The janitor at the narrator's school.

3. Where does the narrator find a photo of three women in black dresses?
(a) In a book in the library.
(b) The Siberian Suitcase.
(c) In the alley behind their house.
(d) In the trash outside a neighbor's house.

4. What does the narrator want of Mr. Bond?
(a) To sponsor the narrator to come to Russia.
(b) To learn if Charlotte is still alive.
(c) To give him some more information on Russian history.
(d) To treat a bad knee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes home from boarding school?

2. What does the narrator say has happened in France since Charlotte has visited the country?

3. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

4. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?

5. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the narrator's book do and when does he remember something Charlotte told him when he saw his first coffin?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

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