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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Early in Chapter 10, Frank learns Miss Kinsman has left for where?
(a) Moscow Station.
(b) Nicholas I Station.
(c) Alexander Station.
(d) Lenin Station.

3. What is Frank's response when Lisa arrives on her first day?
(a) He avoids looking at her.
(b) He excuses himself to make a call.
(c) He speaks with Toma.
(d) He avoids talking to her.

4. What does Sergei, a servant, toss at the bear?
(a) Boiling water.
(b) Ice water.
(c) Red-hot coals.
(d) Fish.

5. When Frank says he does not know in response to Dolly's inquiry about her mother, how does Dolly reply?
(a) She expected as much.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She does not know either.
(d) She knows, but will not tell him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank ask Lisa to do?

2. What is the name of Selwyn's book that Frank is printing?

3. Soon after they return, what does Frank say to Dolly?

4. Why does Frank select a taxi that appears as though it were just starting for the day rather than one that was running all night?

5. How does Frank decide whether or not to take a police inspector to the office with him after hours?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank do once the police have left his business?

2. Dolly is very clingy on the morning the children return from their visit to the dacha with Lisa, but Lisa is not with them, so Frank allows her to stay with him until noon when he takes her home and they encounter what?

3. The same evening of the morning Charlie accompanies Frank to the tram stop, how does he modify his request to take the children to England?

4. What more exposure does the reader receive regarding Selwyn's character in Chapter 11?

5. What concerns Frank following Mitya's party?

6. What initially transpires when Charlie wires that he will be arriving in Moscow?

7. What steps does Frank take to retrieve his children after receiving a phone call from the Alexander Station?

8. What happens regarding the wood Kuriatin is supposed to be delivering to repair the machine room floor at Reid Press?

9. How does Penelope Fitzgerald set the stage for Lisa's and Dolly's mysterious encounter in the woods surrounding the Reid dacha?

10. What does Frank do after informing his household staff of Nellie's and the children's departure?

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