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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 believe about the soldiers he watches?
(a) They were coerced into the military.
(b) They join the military seeking redemption.
(c) They join the military seeking honor.
(d) No outside thoughts can penetrate their minds.

2. What is the narrator learning with his class?
(a) Braille.
(b) First aid.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Sequencing movements.

3. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?
(a) Visit Charlotte.
(b) Go to England to conduct research at Oxford.
(c) Forget going to Russia since it's unstable.
(d) Hold off on having surgery.

4. What does the narrator spend days doing?
(a) Writing his sister.
(b) Shopping in antique stores.
(c) Reading Russian history books.
(d) Writing his memoir.

5. What does the narrator spend his time doing?
(a) Panhandling.
(b) Writing biographical notes.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Working for a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator often have with himself?

2. What does the narrator learn months later from Mr. Bond?

3. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?

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

5. What does the narrator do that makes him feel comforted?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How does the narrator's encounter with the girl with russet-colored hair occur and how does it work out between them?

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

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

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