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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 scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) A book about Russia.
(d) A pair of shoes.

2. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?
(a) A family tomb.
(b) Under a large sycamore.
(c) Under an overpass.
(d) Under a rock ledge.

3. How does Charlotte become pregnant?
(a) She has an affair.
(b) She is gang raped.
(c) She seduces the young minister at her church.
(d) No one knows.

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

5. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?
(a) The narrator does not lie.
(b) To placate Pashka.
(c) To convince Pashka to do something for the narrator.
(d) To appear more knowledgeable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who surrounds Charlotte and asks for money?

3. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?

4. Where is there an open-air dance floor?

5. What does the narrator often have with himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator realize concerning his grandmother and France?

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

4. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

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

6. 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?

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. What happens when the narrator's mother goes for some medical tests?

9. Why does the narrator think he is being accepted by his classmates, what does he see as the three types of cliques in a crowd and how does his acceptance affect his writing?

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

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