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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 recount to Pashka?
(a) Russian history.
(b) French history.
(c) Stories about fishing.
(d) Stories about the early founding of the United States.

2. What does Pashka demand to know from the narrator?
(a) If the king rewards the boy.
(b) What happens to the young, French boy.
(c) Why the king's life is in danger.
(d) Why the boy is being executed.

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

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

5. What does the narrator do that makes him feel comforted?
(a) Lies down with his head on a velvet prie-dieu.
(b) Eats ten chocolate bars.
(c) Drinks a bottle of absinthe.
(d) Picks up a woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator learning with his class?

2. About what does the narrator feel guilty?

3. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?

4. Who moves in with the narrator's family?

5. How does the narrator feel as he is wandering the streets near his temporary home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator do upon returning from Russia?

5. How does Pashka almost drown once?

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

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 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?

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

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