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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters IX through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Alexander's business?
(a) It makes only a little money.
(b) He has to put it on "hold".
(c) It makes enough money to survive.
(d) It fails.

2. Who tells Kira to "get her claws" into Leo?
(a) Andrei.
(b) Stepan.
(c) Galina.
(d) Lydia.

3. How does Leo feel about Tonia?
(a) He feels she is useless to him.
(b) He feels she has good connections.
(c) He feels jealous.
(d) He says he needs to meet her more than once to know how he feels.

4. Why does Andrei tell Kira he had to stop seeing her?
(a) Because she's too expensive to date.
(b) Because he disagrees with her politically.
(c) Because he has a girlfriend.
(d) Because he loves her.

5. Who is Andrei?
(a) An elected official.
(b) A friend of Leo's.
(c) A member of the G.P.U.
(d) An anti-communist speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kira not pick up her student rations one night?

2. How does Kira respond to Andrei giving her more money?

3. Why does Kira wear old clothes to work?

4. Who tells Marisha about the available room in Kira and Leo's apartment?

5. What happens to Kira at the House of Peasants?

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