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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. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?
(a) His younger brother's talent.
(b) The ability of the best athlete at his school.
(c) Tank soldiers who stand at attention.
(d) The blonde-haired girl's boyfriend.

2. How long does the narrator spend in France after leaving his grandmother for the last time?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 10 years.
(d) A few weeks.

3. What causes Pashka to cry?
(a) Cutting his hand.
(b) Hearing the story about the young French boy.
(c) Being told he is stupid.
(d) Failing to solve an easy math problem in a contest.

4. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A book about Russia.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) A new jacket.

5. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?
(a) A student at the school making out with an older woman.
(b) A student at the school have sex with a prostitute.
(c) A prostitute having sex with soldiers.
(d) A calf being born.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?

2. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?

3. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?

4. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?

5. Why is the narrator not allowed to travel to the USSR?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pashka almost drown once?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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