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Tatyana Tolstaya, See the Other Side

Tatyana Tolstaya, See the Other Side

Read See the Other Side and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The narrator is

visiting a site her dear, dead father once visited.

on a study abroad visit to Italy.

a Russian exile in Italy.

a bride on her honeymoon.

2. On her tour of historic sites, the narrator discovers

what was once important is now unimportant; what once excited has vanished in the sands.

the places she has read about are smaller than she expected.

the sites are more spectacular than the postcard photos of them.

that she prefers her own country.

3. In order to have glimpses of the frescoes and architecture, tourists are expected to

feed money into light boxes that turn on the electricity for short periods.

light candles, which they must purchase.

provide their own flashlights.

visit the sites during daylight hours.

4. Groups of visitors stand in the dim light in Italian churches because

no one wants to pay for the light of the others. (They want to see heaven for free.)

this is the proper way to view the artworks.

they were not told in advance to bring flashlights.

the church has run out of candles (just as they do in Russia).

5. The narrator discovers that the old man in the wheelchair who provides light for the visitors is

also a Russian.

blind.

the artist.

the priest.