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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kira's family react to Andrei?
(a) They are cold to him.
(b) They offer him dinner.
(c) They argue with him.
(d) They welcome him warmly.

2. Kira's sister feels that Kira...
(a) Is the favorite.
(b) Is manipulative.
(c) Always gets her way.
(d) Gives up easily.

3. Why does Leo get fired from his teaching job?
(a) He refuses to work for free.
(b) He does not show up on time.
(c) He does not know what he is teaching.
(d) He teaches anti-Communist lessons.

4. How does Lydia respond when Andrei asks her to play the piano?
(a) She says she is tired.
(b) She plays the song for him again.
(c) She tells him she wants him to play.
(d) She tells him no.

5. Why can't Leo find a job?
(a) Because he was fired from his last job.
(b) Because he is not looking for one.
(c) Because he did not finish school.
(d) Because he is not a member of a trade union.

6. Why does Lydia tell Kira that wicked women like her should not be allowed to live?
(a) Because Kira disagreed with Lydia about Communism.
(b) Because Kira stole.
(c) Because Kira broke Lydia's piano.
(d) Because Kira spent the night with Leo.

7. What does Kira enroll as when she fills out her labor card?
(a) A laborer.
(b) A student.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A visitor.

8. Who does Kira go to the ballet with?
(a) Victor.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Leo.
(d) Alexander.

9. What has Vasili been doing with his possessions?
(a) Burning them.
(b) Giving them to other people.
(c) Selling them.
(d) Hiding them.

10. Where does Kira go to work?
(a) She teaches with Galina.
(b) England.
(c) House of the Peasant.
(d) The Technological Institute.

11. How does Kira describe the way she responds to the feelings she has had throughout her life?
(a) She doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.
(b) She hides her truest feelings even from herself.
(c) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.
(d) She finds them to control her and she sometimes disagrees with them.

12. What does Kira consider her time with Leo to be?
(a) Life.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Love.
(d) Indescribable.

13. Why do Kira and her family flee?
(a) Disease.
(b) Lack of jobs.
(c) War.
(d) Crime.

14. Who interrupts Leo and Kira's trip?
(a) A communist officer.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Victor.
(d) Kira's family.

15. What does Kira say is able to evoke feelings of joy in her?
(a) Family.
(b) Travel.
(c) Education.
(d) A song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo end up working after he starts going to the University?

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

3. Why does Kira's family travel on the "threshold of a box car"?

4. What is Leo not allowed to see Kira do?

5. Who is Andrei?

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