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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Charlie arrives, Frank promptly asks about Nellie and is told what?
(a) He has not seen her for some while.
(b) He believes she is in Ireland.
(c) She is not with him, but is perfectly well.
(d) He believes she is in Great Britain.

3. On the night she follows Lisa in the woods away from the dacha, what does Dolly see at every tree when she and Lisa come to a standstill?
(a) A squirrel or a mouse.
(b) A wild boar or a wolf.
(c) A man or a woman.
(d) A red deer or a bear.

4. What does Mrs. Graham suggest to Frank regarding Lisa?
(a) She may be part of a revolutionary group.
(b) She may be teaching revolutionary theories to the children.
(c) She may be seeking to supplant Nellie.
(d) Be using her beauty to advance herself.

5. What are Frank's No. 2 and No. 3 compositors most upset by?
(a) Tyvordov being absent.
(b) Knowing an incident happened in their work area.
(c) Frank playing the incident down.
(d) The holes in Tyvordov's apron.

6. After Lisa and the children depart on Palm Sunday, Frank gets a call from which division within the Ministry of Defense?
(a) Political.
(b) Communications.
(c) Information.
(d) Security.

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

8. Frank's goal is seeing the break-in investigation does not what?
(a) Become a major security issue.
(b) Avoiding future break-ins.
(c) Raise insurance costs.
(d) Frighten Tyvordov away.

9. In Chapter 24, why is it the staff begins packing as though the children will be gone for months rather than a few days?
(a) They are uncertain what the weather will be like.
(b) Because they feel the children may be gone a couple weeks.
(c) They feel it is a pretext for the Reid family leaving Russia.
(d) Because none of them are going along.

10. On Palm Sunday, Lisa takes the children where, with Frank saying he shall join them later?
(a) Out to view the crowds.
(b) To look at the flowers.
(c) To worship services.
(d) To feed the ducks at the lake.

11. Selwyn makes a philosophical comment to Frank in Chapter 26 about the two sides of man's nature, leading up to their discussing whom?
(a) Nellie.
(b) Dolly.
(c) Mrs. Graham.
(d) Lisa.

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

13. At his home, Selwyn offers Dolly and Charlie a tea of sorts that he brews from nine herbs of healing, and that Dolly says are for what?
(a) Healing sore throats.
(b) Clearing nasal passages.
(c) Healing sick cows.
(d) Treating upset stomachs.

14. Chapter 18 opens with Charlie admiring Moscow and viewing Frank's life as being out of what literary tale?
(a) Gulliver's Travels.
(b) Arabian Nights.
(c) Sinbad the Adventurer.
(d) For Whom the Bell Tolls.

15. Frank replies how when Volodya asks that they forgive each other on Palm Sunday?
(a) He is doing his best.
(b) He has already forgven.
(c) He can never forgive.
(d) There is nothing to forgive.

Short Answer Questions

1. The notice releasing Frank of responsibility for Volodya goes on to say there is no further objection to his leaving Russia, and what else?

2. Following the after hours surprise at work, Frank finds Lisa at home doing what?

3. When Frank inquires, how does Lisa say she knows Volodya?

4. 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?

5. En route to the Trading Rows, Charlie says to Dolly he believes he spoke out of turn earlier as her dad what?

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