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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Frank inquires, how does Lisa say she knows Volodya?
(a) From the department store.
(b) From Rusalochka's tea room.
(c) From classes at the university.
(d) From the town of Valdimir.

2. The night prior to Charlie leaving, when he suggests Lisa accompany him with the children en route home to ease Frank's mind, Frank asks what?
(a) Who will take care of the children in Norbury.
(b) Why does he think the children should leave.
(c) If Nellie will meet them.
(d) If he has asked her.

3. In seeing him off at the station, Frank realizes Charlie seems to have forgotten what?
(a) Some of the packages he was taking.
(b) His hat.
(c) The main goal of his visit.
(d) Where it was he was heading.

4. Selwyn takes Charlie to a concert to hear Scriabin play what instrument?
(a) Piano.
(b) Clarinet.
(c) Cello.
(d) Violin.

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

6. While Charlie is out with Selwyn, Frank calls on Mrs. Graham again to ask about whom?
(a) Lisa.
(b) Selwyn.
(c) Tvyordor.
(d) Miss Kinsman.

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

8. Frank would like it if Dolly gave Charlie what?
(a) A tune on the piano.
(b) A chance.
(c) A kiss on the cheek.
(d) A hug.

9. What does Frank do when he spots Lisa and the children across the square on Palm Sunday?
(a) Tells Volodya not to mention the shooting.
(b) Abandons Volodya.
(c) Tells Volodya not to mention the burglary.
(d) Takes Volodya with him.

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

11. The night before Lisa accompanies the children to the dacha, she tells Frank that Volodya had stuck a note to her in the library reading what?
(a) "I am in love with you. I need you."
(b) "You're alive. I too am alive."
(c) "You're alive. I must be with you."
(d) "I am in love with you. You're alive."

12. Which of the children does Frank tell Dolly he plans take to meet Charlie?
(a) Only Dolly.
(b) All of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) Only Ben.

13. Mrs. Graham disapproves of Lisa's presence in Frank's home and so many men impressed with her beauty, accusing all men of what?
(a) Being serf-owners at heart.
(b) Lusting after her at heart.
(c) Being merely lechers in their souls.
(d) Being smitten schoolboys.

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

15. What is the quickest way to the Reid dacha after getting off at the nearby village railroad station?
(a) Following a roundabout way by horse and cart.
(b) Taking a path paralleling a stream.
(c) Walking through the woods.
(d) Along a winding trail in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Volodya adds he shot at Frank because he took Lisa into his home, he had met her in the library, and spoke to her how many times?

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

3. The night she follows Lisa in the woods outside the dacha, why is Dolly limping?

4. Frank replies how when Volodya asks that they forgive each other on Palm Sunday?

5. Before Frank goes to his dacha to collect Lisa and his children, why does he get a Defense Ministry notice releasing him of responsibility for Volodya?

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