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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. After reading Nellie's letter, what does Frank tell his staff?
(a) Nellie left with the children, he doesn't know when she will return.
(b) Nellie took the children to Bridgeport, he doesn't know when she will return.
(c) Nellie left for London with the children, it is unknown when she will return.
(d) Nellie left for Paris, he doesn't know when she will return.

2. Frank informs Selwyn about Miss Kinsman, mainly to check what?
(a) Whether he should contact her.
(b) If he should hire a governess.
(c) His own understanding of the incident.
(d) What Selwyn knew of her.

3. Frank's plant sits on which roadway?
(a) Seraphim Street.
(b) Seraphim Avenue.
(c) Seraphim Drive.
(d) Moscow Pathway.

4. In what year is Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring set?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1919

5. Frank was born where?
(a) St. Petersburg, of English parents.
(b) Moscow, of Irish parents.
(c) Moscow, of English parents.
(d) London, of Russian parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what does Selwyn have concern about?

2. As Frank and the children await in the dining room on Lisa's first day, how does she arrive?

3. What does Frank ask Lisa to do?

4. When Frank tells Dolly where the paper and envelopes are if she wants to write her mother, what is her response?

5. As Lisa cut her hair at Frank's request, Dolly says he ought to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Frank's plans for spring cleaning of his residence in Moscow that appear in Chapter 26?

2. In a later conversation between Frank and Dolly, what do they discuss concerning her mother?

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

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

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

6. Although born and raised in Moscow, where does Frank receive his adult education?

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

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

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

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

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