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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 courses did Frank study prior to taking on an apprenticeship?
(a) Architechtural engineering.
(b) Mechanical engineering and printing.
(c) Printing.
(d) Editing.

2. When Frank tells Dolly where the paper and envelopes are if she wants to write her mother, what is her response?
(a) She would wait awhile.
(b) She would immediately.
(c) She would prefer to wire her.
(d) It would likely be better if she didn't.

3. When the cheating overseer asks for his internal passport, what is Frank's response?
(a) Gives it to him.
(b) Withholds it until he agrees to pay the employees back.
(c) Withholds it from him.
(d) Withholds it until he pays the employees back.

4. Who pounds on the door of the location Frank finds his children at?
(a) The station master's wife.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Nellie.
(d) The taxi driver.

5. What is the name of Selwyn's book that Frank is printing?
(a) Oak Tree Thoughts.
(b) Pine Tree Thoughts.
(c) Birch Tree Thoughts.
(d) Maple Tree Thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Selwyn initially describe Lisa Ivanovna to Frank as?

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

3. The choral society Frank and Nellie met at was performing what at the time?

4. Although born and raised in Russia, Frank is viewed by everyone as what?

5. Where does Frank work in Frankfurt, Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significant background does the author provide regarding Selwyn Crane in Chapter 3?

2. What are some of the proposals the new cost accountant, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bernov, offers on his first day of work at Reid Press?

3. What actions does Lisa take that very much please Frank when he arrives home quite late one evening?

4. What is it Frank can see in Chapter 24 regarding the impression Volodya has made upon Lisa?

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

6. Why does Frank make the effort to go up and down the street where Reid Press is located?

7. What does Frank do with the man he finds has broken into his business?

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

9. What prompts Frank to ask Nellie if he should get crosses for Dolly and Ben following Annushka's birth?

10. What does the reader learn in Chapter 26 regarding the reasons why Nellie left Moscow with her three children in the initial chapter?

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