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

2. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?
(a) In a plate glass window of the grocery store.
(b) In the bathroom mirror as he shaves.
(c) From the window of the train.
(d) In a reflection in a car side mirror.

3. Why is the narrator not allowed to travel to the USSR?
(a) He is allowed to travel to Russia.
(b) He relinquished his Russian citizenship.
(c) He is wanted for treason.
(d) He was granted refugee status.

4. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) The executioner.

5. Of what does Pashka become jealous?
(a) A soldier who steals his girlfriend.
(b) A mechanic who steals his girlfriend.
(c) The newest math whiz in school.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?

2. What causes Pashka to cry?

3. What does the narrator invent in order to publish his book?

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

5. What has the narrator just done three years in the future after finding his temporary home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do about a place for Charlotte when she comes to visit?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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