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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. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?
(a) To England.
(b) To Moscow.
(c) To Leningrad.
(d) To France.
2. What thoughts overwhelm the narrator?
(a) Thoughts about women.
(b) Thoughts about escaping Russia.
(c) Thoughts about his father's final hours.
(d) Thoughts about death.
3. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?
(a) To appear more knowledgeable.
(b) To placate Pashka.
(c) To convince Pashka to do something for the narrator.
(d) The narrator does not lie.
4. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?
(a) A student at the school making out with an older woman.
(b) A calf being born.
(c) A student at the school have sex with a prostitute.
(d) A prostitute having sex with soldiers.
5. What does the narrator often have with himself?
(a) Long, imaginary conversations with his mother.
(b) Confidence-building sessions.
(c) Long, imaginary conversations with his father.
(d) Long, imaginary conversations with Charlotte.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the narrator's mother go to the hospital?
2. Why is the narrator not allowed to travel to the USSR?
3. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
4. Why must the narrator construct his stories three different ways?
5. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?
2. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?
3. Why does the narrator begin to write Charlotte's life and what does he want to know about her as he is writing?
4. What does the narrator learn from Mr. Bond about Charlotte in the last chapter?
5. Why does the narrator feel guilty concerning his grandmother?
6. How does the narrator's encounter with the girl with russet-colored hair occur and how does it work out between them?
7. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?
8. How does the narrator's interest in Russia cause him problems?
9. 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?
10. Who does the narrator notice while doing sequences and what does he notice about her?
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