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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many hours do Baba Sheva and Andrei wait to conduct their business at the bank in Chapter 7?
2. Where did Baba Seva live when she married a geophysicist?
3. What was the name of a group that Sergei and his friends had organized?
4. Where is Emma Abramovna's dacha?
5. What did Andrei's college advisor used to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 1, Chapter 2, how is Baba Seva's early history described?
2. What does Andrei learn about Sergei when he looks him up on the internet?
3. How did Baba Seva meet her first husband, Andrei's grandfather, and how did he die?
4. What is it like when Andrei and his grandmother go grocery shopping?
5. Why did Baba Seva lose her job at Moscow State, and how did she survive as a widow?
6. Why is Andrei late depositing the money for the rent into Dima's account, and does the delay cost or earn Dima money?
7. Who are the people subletting Dima's apartment?
8. Why is Andrei desperate to leave New York in Part 1, Chapter 1?
9. Where does Andrei go to do his classwork when his face is swollen in Chapter 7?
10. When and how were Jews allowed to emigrate from Russia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon his interpretation of life. How does the author use artistic license to make the novel seem realistic and like it could have happened?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
Essay Topic 3
In Part 1, Chapter 5, Seva visits Emma. How does Seva compare herself to Emma? How and why does the visit make Seva feel insecure?
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