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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the cheating overseer asks for his internal passport, what is Frank's response?
(a) Gives it to him.
(b) Withholds it until he pays the employees back.
(c) Withholds it until he agrees to pay the employees back.
(d) Withholds it from him.

2. As Frank and the children await in the dining room on Lisa's first day, how does she arrive?
(a) In a new dress.
(b) Tired.
(c) Late.
(d) With her hair cut.

3. In Chapter 6, Frank believes that foreigners will be able to run businesses in Moscow for how many more years?
(a) 2 to 5.
(b) 6 to 8.
(c) 5 to 10.
(d) 10 to 15.

4. Who introduces Frank to Muriel Kinsman?
(a) Thomas Graham.
(b) Mrs. Graham.
(c) Reverend Graham.
(d) Mr. Graham.

5. When Frank tells Dolly where the paper and envelopes are if she wants to write her mother, what is her response?
(a) She would immediately.
(b) She would prefer to wire her.
(c) She would wait awhile.
(d) It would likely be better if she didn't.

6. Who is getting a bear cub as a present?
(a) Andrea Reid.
(b) Dolly Reid.
(c) Ben Reid.
(d) Mitya Kuriatin.

7. What does Bert die of?
(a) Violent protest in Moscow.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Old age.
(d) Heart attack.

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

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

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

11. The kitchen-mother Frank finds watching his children normally is available for how much per day?
(a) 90 kopeks a day.
(b) 80 kopeks a day.
(c) 100 kopeks a day.
(d) 70 kopeks a day.

12. What does Mitya give the dancing bear to drink at the party?
(a) Milk.
(b) Cider.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Water.

13. What courses did Frank study prior to taking on an apprenticeship?
(a) Printing.
(b) Editing.
(c) Architechtural engineering.
(d) Mechanical engineering and printing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Following their marriage, Frank and Nellie stop in Frankfurt, Germany for how long en route to Moscow?

2. How does Selwyn initially describe Lisa Ivanovna to Frank as?

3. In Chapter 13, what does Selwyn have concern about?

4. What was Frank's father's trade?

5. At the tea-room Kuriatin has invited Frank to, waiters career about wheeling large teapots about like what?

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