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

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

3. What color represents the Marxist army?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

4. At the end of Chapter 1, why is Madame Guishar offended?
(a) There is no fresh produce in the city.
(b) Her bakery can no longer receive flour.
(c) Lara has insulted her.
(d) Her seamstresses have gone on strike.

5. The leaders of the Russian government are called by this name.
(a) Kings.
(b) Communists.
(c) Marxists.
(d) Tsars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Commissar Strelnikov believe everyone must do during the Russian Civil War?

3. What is the name of the independent republic that Blazheiko sets up and backs with a force of deserters from the 212th Infantry?

4. Why does Lara consider herself to be a bad person?

5. What type of school is set up in Yuri and Tonia's house?

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