We the Living | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part One: Chapters I through III

1. Where do Kira and her family arrive at the beginning of this book?

Petrograd.

2. What is the relationship between Victor and Kira?

Cousins.

3. Maria and Vasili's family can best be described as ______?

Struggling financially.

4. What does Victor study?

Engineering.

5. How are Vasili and Alexander similar before the revolution?

They were both wealthy and ended up losing most of their possessions.

6. What does Kira say she wants to do with her life?

Become an engineer.

7. How does Victor respond to Kira's plans for her life?

He says that women are needed in other areas.

8. Kira's sister feels that Kira...

Always gets her way.

9. How does Kira feel about their return to the city?

That it is the beginning of something wonderful.

10. What does Kira find to be "ignoble"?

Work and effort.

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