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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank ask Lisa to do?
(a) Wear her hair in a bun.
(b) Cut her hair.
(c) Wear her hair in plaits.
(d) Wear her hair in pigtails.

2. What is Lisa employed in at Muirka's?
(a) Women's hats.
(b) Men's handkerchiefs.
(c) Women's garments.
(d) Women's shoes.

3. What employment has Miss Kinsman been at when Frank meets her?
(a) Cook.
(b) Governess.
(c) Office clerk.
(d) Maidservant.

4. After collecting his children where he finds them, Frank takes them where?
(a) The church.
(b) His business.
(c) His sister's.
(d) Home.

5. Who does Bert tell Frank he has hired as his chief compositor?
(a) Toma Dunyasha.
(b) Jacob Kraninsky.
(c) Yacob Tvyordov.
(d) Selwyn Osipych.

6. In what year is Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring set?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1919
(d) 1893.

7. Soon after they return, what does Frank say to Dolly?
(a) He had been looking everywhere for them.
(b) He was very lonely while the children were away.
(c) He does not know why her mother left.
(d) He asks where his wife is.

8. In Chapter 13, what does Selwyn have concern about?
(a) Frank's children.
(b) Lisa.
(c) His book.
(d) The giant press.

9. In Chapter 1, a messenger delivers a letter from Nellie to Frank at what location?
(a) Frank's office.
(b) Frank's hotel, out of town.
(c) Frank's secretary at work.
(d) Frank's home.

10. When Frank asks Miss Kinsman what she seeks, what is her reply?
(a) Only a position in Frank's household.
(b) Only a position with Frank's firm.
(c) Only Frank's address.
(d) Nothing.

11. When does the wood arrive at Reid Press?
(a) After paying a few small bribes.
(b) After Kuriatin talks with the distributor he employs.
(c) After the ice melts in the spring.
(d) After Kuriatin talks with the manager he employs.

12. At the tea-room Kuriatin has invited Frank to, waiters career about wheeling large teapots about like what?
(a) Oversized balloons.
(b) Taxis in the city.
(c) Fish in a glass bowl.
(d) Bumper cars.

13. Which two individuals make a knowing comment to Frank about his hiring Lisa so soon after Nellie leaves?
(a) Kuriatin and Toma.
(b) Tvyordov and Toma.
(c) Kuriatin and Cherkovsky.
(d) Kuriatin and Tvyordov.

14. What does Charlie wire Frank back the third day?
(a) He heard from her once, but has no other information.
(b) He has not seen or heard from Nellie.
(c) Nellie is safe and well with him.
(d) Nellie is safe and well, but not there with him.

15. When Frank arrives where his children were said to be at, he is told they are now where?
(a) A local mission house.
(b) The home of the police chief.
(c) The home of the station master.
(d) The fire station.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does Selwyn inadvertently leave behind?

2. Where does Frank meet Kuriatin to discuss the issue when he fails to provide the wood?

3. In Chapter 7, Frank believes Nellie will return, and he wires all the railway stations as far as where?

4. What property does Frank desire to sell?

5. What does Sergei, a servant, toss at the bear?

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