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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 7 Train to the Urals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuri's wife, Tonia, receive for trading an embroidered towel?
(a) Half of a roasted turkey.
(b) Half of a roasted rabbit.
(c) Half of a roasted chicken.
(d) Half of a loaf of bread.

2. What does Lara do when Pasha joins the Russian army?
(a) She becomes a teacher.
(b) She becomes a secretary.
(c) She becomes a nurse.
(d) She works in her mother's bakery.

3. Upon the advice of her lawyer, where does Amalia Karlovna Guishar send Lara?
(a) To the country.
(b) To Moscow.
(c) To England.
(d) To school.

4. In the first chapter, many workers protest working conditions by leaving their jobs. What word is used in the book to describe that type of protest?
(a) Recession.
(b) Demonstration.
(c) Hit.
(d) Strike.

5. What physical handicap does political leader Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh have?
(a) He is a deaf-mute.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He was crippled in the war.
(d) He is mentally challenged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Yuri during his illness in the winter?

2. After watching a worker's demonstration, what job does Pasha Antipov want?

3. What happens to four of the conscripted workers one night as Yuri and his companions enter the mountains on their way to Varykino?

4. When the Russian economy collapses, which two political groups begin to fight for power?

5. During his journey to Varykino, Yuri realizes he knows the leader of one of the powerful political forces in Russia. Which political force does Galiullin lead?

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