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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 need in order to obtain a French passport?
(a) His French naturalization papers.
(b) Proof of his Russian birth.
(c) Enough money to purchase a ticket to Russia.
(d) Proof of his French birth.

2. Why does the narrator wander around France?
(a) To write a travel book.
(b) To decide where he wants to buy a house.
(c) For no reason.
(d) To visit several friends.

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

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

5. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?
(a) Joining the French Foreign Legion.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Writing his grandmother to ask for money.
(d) Working for his best friend's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator want of Mr. Bond?

2. What does the narrator say has happened in France since Charlotte has visited the country?

3. Why does the narrator help Pashka?

4. Who surrounds Charlotte and asks for money?

5. What calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

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

7. How did the narrator's book do and when does he remember something Charlotte told him when he saw his first coffin?

8. Why does the narrator feel guilty concerning his grandmother?

9. How does the narrator feel about the women in the photo and how does he try to return to the comfort of his childhood?

10. How does the narrator imagine Charlotte in France and what does he do that he does not usually do when preparing for her visit?

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