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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color sun hat does Baba Seva always wear?
(a) Beige.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Mauve.

2. Where did Uncle Lev and Baba Seva have a dacha?
(a) Barvikha.
(b) Sheremetevo.
(c) Komarovo.
(d) Zhukovka.

3. Who was the most violent person on Grisha's team?
(a) Sasha.
(b) Oleg.
(c) Anton.
(d) Fedya.

4. What is the first book read for the fall PMOOC section that Andrei is in charge of for Jeff Wilson's class?
(a) Family Happiness.
(b) The Cossacks.
(c) Resurrection.
(d) Anna Karenina.

5. When did Andrei and his parents leave the Soviet Union?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

6. Who was living in Baba Seva's apartment when she wanted to mortage it?
(a) Her daughter, her daughter's husband, and her boys.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Dima and his second wife.
(d) Dima and his first wife.

7. In Part 2, Chapter 1, when does Andrei regularly play hockey?
(a) Monday and Friday.
(b) Wednesday and Saturday.
(c) Wednesday and Friday.
(d) Tuesday and Thursday.

8. What does Andrei's father do for a living?
(a) Computer programmer.
(b) Architect.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Lawyer.

9. In Chapter 7, what color coat does Baba Sheva wear when she and Andrei go to her bank to convert her rubles to dollars?
(a) Navy.
(b) White.
(c) Pink.
(d) Red.

10. Where does Baba Seva say that Aunt Klava was and then returned to Moscow?
(a) Norilsk.
(b) Solovetsky.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Vorkuta.

11. How long after the cold settles in in Part 2, Chapter 1, does Andrei decide he needs a warmer coat?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) A week.
(d) 3 weeks.

12. When does Andrei remember he last took an annual trip to Europe with his grandmother and brother?
(a) Late 1990s.
(b) Early 1990s.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1998.

13. When was Baba Seva born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1916.

14. What year was Andrei in high school when his mother got sick?
(a) Junior.
(b) Senior.
(c) Freshman.
(d) Sophomore.

15. How long has it been since Sergei quit the university in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) 3 1/2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2. years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Andrei's grandfather Boris Lipkin killed?

2. What country has Russian recently attacked when Andrei comes to Moscow to stay with his grandmother?

3. For the first few years after Andrei's mother went to America, how often did she write Baba Seva?

4. When did oil bankroll the Soviet military buildup?

5. When did Emma Abramovna's daughter emigrate to Israel?

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