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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frank realizes it would have been better if Selwyn had been what?

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

3. What is the name of Frank's company?

4. Who is getting a bear cub as a present?

5. What is Frank's response when Lisa arrives on her first day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank do after informing his household staff of Nellie's and the children's departure?

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

3. What is Frank's answer to Selwyn in Chapter 10 when he asks how his book, Birch Tree Thoughts, is going?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What sort of character is Mrs. Graham shown to be in Chapter 18?

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the course of the conversation Frank has with Dolly over her writing a letter to her mother, what does the reader learn that she thinks of Nellie? How does Dolly view Nellie's decision to get married and have children? What sort of way is that for a ten-year-old child to think? Does it seem unusual for Dolly?

Essay Topic 2

Critical in Chapter 12 are the feelings Frank has toward Lisa. How does Penelope Fitzgerald accomplish revealing the state Frank finds himself in? What is the capability Frank has in recognizing and dealing with his instinctive emotions?

Essay Topic 3

What is the real motive behind Volodya breaking into Reid Press? How does Frank learn the true reason? What is it Volodya detests the thought of? What impression has Volodya made upon Lisa?

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