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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. Who moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's paternal aunt.
(b) The narrator's paternal grandmother.
(c) The narrator's first cousin.
(d) The narrator's maternal aunt.

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

3. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?
(a) To Leningrad.
(b) To France.
(c) To Moscow.
(d) To England.

4. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?
(a) Down by the lake.
(b) Up in a tree.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the men's room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

2. Who is Beria?

3. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?

4. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

5. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

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

8. What does the narrator learn from Mr. Bond about Charlotte in the last chapter?

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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