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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "samoubistvo" translate to in English (167)?
(a) Flower.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Winter.
(d) Wilderness.

2. What does the word "nadziratel" translate to in English (168)?
(a) Wander.
(b) Overseer.
(c) Location.
(d) Suicide.

3. What two products are described as "the scent of America" in Chapter 10 (127)?
(a) Dial soap and Sure deodorant.
(b) SPAM and bacon.
(c) Tide laundry detergent and Axe body wash.
(d) Irish Spring soap and cheap cologne.

4. What word does Nate use in Chapter 16 to describe "The whole national myth--the Motherland, the soil, the hymns, chasing Nazis across the steppes" (204)?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Rodina.

5. Who was the initiator of creation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the August Coup of 1991?
(a) Anatoly Golov.
(b) Sonya Moroyeva.
(c) Vladimir Kryuchkov.
(d) Dimitri Ustinov.

6. What word does "navoz" translate to in English in Chapter 9 (104)?
(a) Manure.
(b) Road.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Railroad.

7. What recipe concludes Chapter 13?
(a) "Old Lady's Beet Soup."
(b) "SVR Cafeteria Chicken Kiev."
(c) "Nate's Veal Picatta."
(d) "Caviar Torte."

8. What does the word "razdelenie" translate to in English (216)?
(a) Road.
(b) Partner.
(c) Compartmentalization.
(d) Comraderie.

9. What recipe concludes Chapter 18?
(a) "Pytt i Panna."
(b) "Gable's Cheese Fondue."
(c) "Pelmeni Dumplings."
(d) "Ustinov's Rustic Pate."

10. What does SDR stand for?
(a) Sudden disappearance route.
(b) Surveillance distraction routine.
(c) Surveillance detection route.
(d) Spy defection referendum.

11. What code name has Dominika been given by headquarters in Chapter 12?
(a) UNSUB.
(b) DIVA.
(c) SWAN.
(d) VERONICA.

12. Where did Dominika consider taking her mother to live on the shores of the Nevskaya Guba?
(a) Arbat.
(b) Basmanny.
(c) Khamovniki.
(d) Strelna.

13. What is the name of Jaana's husband?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Walter.
(c) James.
(d) Philip.

14. What does the word "tricoteuse" translate to in English (193)?
(a) A sitting duck.
(b) A potato.
(c) A man in armor.
(d) A knitting woman.

15. Who is described as the closest thing Dominika has as a friend in Chapter 13?
(a) Alexei Zyuganov.
(b) Marta Yelenova.
(c) Sonya Moroyeva.
(d) Anatoly Golov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "lichinki" translate to in English, according to narration in Chapter 9?

2. What information is related to Dominika in the white envelope she finds in her in-box at her desk in Chapter 9?

3. What does the narrator translate the word "izmena" to in English in Chapter 12 (168)?

4. What does Dominika translate the word "zalozhnica" to in English in Chapter 16 (206)?

5. What does AVR refer to in the novel?

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