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

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

3. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
(b) A car to rent.
(c) A private-duty nurse.
(d) An apartment.

4. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?
(a) Under a rock ledge.
(b) Under an overpass.
(c) Under a large sycamore.
(d) A family tomb.

5. What sudden urge does the narrator have?
(a) To write his mother.
(b) To find out if Charlotte is still alive.
(c) To go to the United States.
(d) To visit his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens one day to Pashka?

2. Why does the narrator's mother go to the hospital?

3. What does the narrator often have with himself?

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

5. Why is the narrator targeted by bullies at his school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator begin to write Charlotte's life and what does he want to know about her as he is writing?

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. Who is the only person in the narrator's class who treats him kindly?

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

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

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

8. Why does the narrator not call or write Charlotte after he finds her and what does he do while waiting to see her?

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

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

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