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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 comes home from boarding school?
(a) The narrator's neighbor's daughter.
(b) The narrator's best friend's sister.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) No one.

2. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?
(a) Picks up a woman at a bar.
(b) Goes to the opera.
(c) Prays.
(d) Goes Hang gliding.

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

4. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?
(a) Her job.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Fyodor's grave.
(d) Her status as a foreigner in the tiny village.

5. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?
(a) To hide his birthmark.
(b) To pull himself onto the roof of the school.
(c) To summon a taxi.
(d) To pull Pashka out of the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Charlotte's first love?

3. Who is the one person who is kind to the narrator at school?

4. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?

5. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator not call or write Charlotte after he finds her and what does he do while waiting to see her?

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

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

4. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

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

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

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

8. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

9. 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?

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

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