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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the police leave the scene?
(a) Frank slips them a small bribe.
(b) The police doubt the night watchman.
(c) Frank casts doubt on whether the night watchman saw anything.
(d) The policeman doubts Selwyn stating a book was missing.

2. Who is the patron saint of printing?
(a) St. Moritz.
(b) St. Markus.
(c) St. Modestus.
(d) St. Peter.

3. In Chapter 17, Nellie receives a wire from Charlie advising he will be arriving when in Moscow?
(a) March 31.
(b) January 31.
(c) August 31.
(d) May 31.

4. Frank is told the Defense Ministry is making him responsible for the burglar to Reid Press, Vladimir Semyonich Grigoriev, and what?
(a) He cannot leave Moscow while Grigoriev is a student at the university.
(b) He can leave Moscow only while Grigoriev is a student at the university.
(c) He must employ Grigoriev while he is a student at the university.
(d) He cannot leave Moscow until Grigoriev's university time is paid for.

5. Frank replies how to the Defense Ministry saying he is pursuing steps to be able to sell Reid Press and perhaps leave Russia?
(a) Says he has no plans to sell Reid Press, nor to leave Russia.
(b) Says he is unaware of anything they are talking about.
(c) Contests no information and says he does not intend to leave presently.
(d) Contests no information and says he may visit Great Britain briefly.

6. Following the concert, Selwyn instructs Charlie to stop to look at what?
(a) City fountains.
(b) An art museum.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) The stars.

7. Kuriatin offers to assume total control of Frank's children, which greatly impresses Bernov, but Frank advises what?
(a) Kuriatin is not sufficiently responsible.
(b) Kuriatin is far too busy.
(c) Kuriatin has too many children of his own.
(d) Kuriatin does not really mean it.

8. What does the individual Frank surprises say he is doing after hours?
(a) Attempting to get a few school pages printed.
(b) Hoping to get some rest as he works two jobs.
(c) Hoping to get caught up on work.
(d) Hoping to get personal business documents printed.

9. What does Frank tell the individual he finds in the shop to do?
(a) Take the copy of Birch Tree Thoughts that he offers.
(b) To turn out the lights, lock up, leave the key with the watchman.
(c) To lock up.
(d) To turn off the lights.

10. Who informs the police of the break-in?
(a) Selwyn.
(b) Tvyordov.
(c) The night watchman.
(d) Two printing apprentices.

11. What message does Frank send Tvyordov the morning after the break-in at the shop?
(a) He has the morning off with pay.
(b) He has the day off with pay.
(c) He has the morning off, but no pay.
(d) He has the day off, but no pay.

12. On the day Charlie leaves, at the evening meal, what does Dolly say?
(a) Uncle Charlie kept trying to get her to return to Norbury.
(b) She is looking forward to the dacha.
(c) Neither she nor Lisa will likely ever marry.
(d) She is glad Uncle Charlie is gone, she was afraid of him.

13. What does Tvyordor tell Frank he plans to do with his tools?
(a) Sell them.
(b) Pass them on to his son.
(c) Toss them in the river.
(d) Give them to No. 2 compositor.

14. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bernov, Frank's new cost accountant, offers ideas that would increase profitability, but that would what?
(a) Decrease the lifespan of machinery.
(b) Require significant investment.
(c) Limit profit margins.
(d) Be hard on the staff.

15. Frank is used to human warmth, from his Russian work contacts and even his servants, but all Dolly gives him is what?
(a) A fearless glance.
(b) Cold replies to his offers of warmth.
(c) A distant stare.
(d) An emotionless, "me too," when he says he loves her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernov says giving everyone the money they deserve defines what?

2. The day before Charlie is to return to Great Britain, he joins Frank en route to work how far?

3. Where does Kuriatin take Charlie outing in his Wolseley car, with Bernov as an interpreter, at the start of Chapter 19?

4. One day before Palm Sunday, Lisa surprises Frank by asking what?

5. Why does the train make a half-hour stop in Mozhaisk before it proceeds toward Berlin?

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