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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What job does Galina take?
(a) Teaching children Russian.
(b) Translating texts.
(c) Sewing in a factory.
(d) Teaching children to sew.

3. What is the relationship between Victor and Kira?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Friends.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) Cousins.

4. How does Kira's father get the apartment?
(a) A bribe.
(b) The landlord is a cousin.
(c) He pleads.
(d) He finds money.

5. Why does Kira stay away from her and Leo's garden meeting place?
(a) She does not want to see it without him.
(b) She promised not to return there.
(c) She fears she might see him with someone else.
(d) She is angry at Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Russia?

2. What does Vava ask the guests to bring?

3. What happens to Alexander's business?

4. Who says that Kira is "selfish" and "anti-social"?

5. How does Galina react to the new apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is interesting about Kira and Andrei's relationship?

2. What is Kira's work environment like at the House of the Peasant?

3. What does Kira realize, after becoming more comfortable with her living conditions, about Communism?

4. Why does Kira fear for Leo's safety after their second meeting?

5. What do the men who shovel snow reveal about Communism?

6. Why does Kira have Andrei drop her off near her parents' apartment?

7. Why does Andrei order soup for Kira?

8. How does Kira feel toward Victor and his advances?

9. What happens to Leo's father's apartment?

10. How might Kira's family feel in the first three chapters?

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