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

2. When does the wood arrive at Reid Press?
(a) After Kuriatin talks with the manager he employs.
(b) After paying a few small bribes.
(c) After the ice melts in the spring.
(d) After Kuriatin talks with the distributor he employs.

3. In Chapter 1, a messenger delivers a letter from Nellie to Frank at what location?
(a) Frank's office.
(b) Frank's secretary at work.
(c) Frank's hotel, out of town.
(d) Frank's home.

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

5. At the tea-room Kuriatin has invited Frank to, waiters career about wheeling large teapots about like what?
(a) Taxis in the city.
(b) Bumper cars.
(c) Oversized balloons.
(d) Fish in a glass bowl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the novel's opening paragraph, Nellie has taken her three children and left, presumably for where?

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

4. In Chapter 6, Frank believes that foreigners will be able to run businesses in Moscow for how many more years?

5. Why does Frank transfer from Nottingham to Norbury?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Frank tells Lisa he is sorry she never managed to study, what transpires next?

2. Where does Frank encounter Reverend Graham?

3. At supper on the day Charlie returns to England, what is Lisa's response, when prodded by Frank, to Ben's inquiry regarding how it is better for women now than it was ten years ago?

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

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

6. What conversation do Selwyn and Charlie have over tea regarding Dolly's handiness in the kitchen?

7. What is an interesting contrast between Frank Reid and Selwyn Crane?

8. In his conversation with Selwyn concerning Miss Kinsman, why is it Frank does not seem to see that Selwyn is attempting to tell him something?

9. What transpires after Frank receives a telephone call from the Security Police on Palm Sunday?

10. When Charlie arrives at the station, what is it Frank first inquires about?

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