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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. What is Frank doing when he receives the letter from Nellie in the opening chapter?
(a) Drinking tea.
(b) Walking home.
(c) Leaving home for work.
(d) Busy at his work place.

2. In Chapter 1, what does Selwyn inadvertently leave behind?
(a) His hat.
(b) His briefcase.
(c) His umbrella.
(d) His coat.

3. When Frank arrives where his children were said to be at, he is told they are now where?
(a) The home of the police chief.
(b) A local mission house.
(c) The home of the station master.
(d) The fire station.

4. Who is born in late autumn of 1911?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Alicia.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Annushka.

5. Frank's father, Bert, dies when?
(a) Spring, 1905.
(b) Autumn, 1905.
(c) Summer, 1905.
(d) Winter, 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sergei, a servant, toss at the bear?

2. Where is Miss Kinsman returning to when Frank meets her?

3. What else does Nellie admit to soon after meeting Frank?

4. As she asks for his address, Frank offers to escort Miss Kinsman where?

5. Whom is Nellie living with when she meets Frank in Norbury?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frank view the long-term outlook for foreign businessmen in Moscow?

2. What are some examples of Nellie Cooper's lack of enthusiasm for the things she does?

3. What sort of business transaction does Frank have with Kuriatin in Chapter 8 that now appears to be repeating itself in Chapter 12?

4. After Lisa brings the children in to say goodnight to him following his arrival home late one evening, what does Frank do?

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

6. Why is it Mrs. Kuriatin readily agrees to have Dolly and Ben come after school to Mitya's party?

7. In the first paragraph of Chapter 1, what situation occurs, the resolution of which is the main thrust of the tale?

8. What does the reader learn of Frank's background in the opening chapter?

9. Where does Frank encounter Reverend Graham?

10. Subsequent to his questioning by the Security Police, while walking with Volodya after they exit the Ministry of Defense in a brief discussion, Frank spots something across the square that prompts him to do what next?

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