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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 form of government does the new ruling party in October first establish?
(a) A Socialist union.
(b) A Marxist party.
(c) A dictatorship of the proletariat.
(d) A Communist regime.

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

3. Why was Yura poor?
(a) Yura's father was on strike.
(b) The government had taken all their posessions.
(c) Yura's father could not find work.
(d) Yura's father had squandered the family fortune.

4. The members of the rebellion desire what form of government?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Socialism.

5. When the Russian economy collapses, which two political groups begin to fight for power?
(a) The Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks.
(b) The Provisional Government and the Communists.
(c) The Provisional Government and the Socialists.
(d) The Bolsheviks and the Marxists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuri's wife, Tonia, receive for trading an embroidered towel?

2. After her affair with Komarovsky ends, whom does Lara marry?

3. The book begins with what type of scene?

4. What does Yuri tell Commissar Strelnikov he wants out of life?

5. Why does Lara leave the front line and return to Moscow?

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