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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. Why does Frank transfer from Nottingham to Norbury?
(a) Better hours.
(b) Better chances for promotion.
(c) Better wages.
(d) More up-to-date machinery.

2. What property does Frank desire to sell?
(a) A storage unit next to Reid Press.
(b) A small residence in Germany.
(c) The property where the gigantic press is located.
(d) A lot next to Reid Press.

3. Following their marriage, Frank and Nellie stop in Frankfurt, Germany for how long en route to Moscow?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 4 years.

4. What is the name of Frank's company?
(a) F.R. Press.
(b) Daily Press.
(c) Reid Press.
(d) Franklin Press.

5. At home, Frank hires Dunyasha to help Nellie with what?
(a) The cooking.
(b) The children.
(c) The cleaning.
(d) The general care of the home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Nellie make it clear to Frank she is when they meet?

2. Kuriatin calls asking Frank to have dinner with him at what very noisy tea-room?

3. What does Frank ask Lisa to do?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. What sort of description does Penelope Fitzgerald provide of Tvyordov, the chief compositor?

5. What takes place at four in the afternoon, the very first day Bernov arrives for work?

6. What transpires in Frank's and Nellie's lives between the time they marry and Frank's parents' deaths?

7. In what context does Penelope Fitzgerald use the term "spiritual" in The Beginning of Spring?

8. How is it that Frank learns the reason why in Chapter 26 the Defense Ministry not only releases him from responsibility for Volodya, but also encourages him to depart Russia at his earliest opportunity?

9. What is it Selwin seeks to tell Frank at Rusalochka's, but is hesitant to do so in front of Kuriatin?

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

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