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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 calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Mindlessly following orders.
(c) Rowing.
(d) Running.

2. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?
(a) Their being nude.
(b) Their names.
(c) Their dreams.
(d) Their talking to him about their lives.

3. Who is Mr. Bond?
(a) The mayor of Saranza.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A professor.
(d) A private detective.

4. Where does the narrator find a photo of three women in black dresses?
(a) In the trash outside a neighbor's house.
(b) In a book in the library.
(c) In the alley behind their house.
(d) The Siberian Suitcase.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend days?

2. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?

3. Who is Beria?

4. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?

5. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pashka almost drown once?

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

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

4. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What happens when the narrator's mother goes for some medical tests?

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