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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe realize he needs to actually escape Siberia?
(a) More bear skins.
(b) Some rubles.
(c) Some Sanskrit.
(d) Another pair of mocassins.

2. Why does Zamatev think Kyra is the best?
(a) She is smart.
(b) She is the sister of someone important.
(c) She is decended from Russian royalty.
(d) She is Shepilov's daughter.

3. Why does Zamatev consider Major Joe to be alone?
(a) Traitors have no friends.
(b) He is already believed dead.
(c) He is not yet married.
(d) He has no ties back home.

4. What does Kyra think Wulff wants?
(a) Natalya Lebedev.
(b) Nothing to change.
(c) The American captured for himself.
(d) To rise to the top.

5. What is Alekhin's pride?
(a) No prisoner has escaped him.
(b) He has never been defeated in an arm wrestle.
(c) A reputation as a great chef.
(d) His Russian heritage.

6. Why does Zhikarev excite Kyra?
(a) He has the best furs.
(b) He is a superb helicopter pilot.
(c) She hopes he will allow her to catch Joe.
(d) He can be made to betray Wulff.

7. What window do the prisoners have to talk without being spied on?
(a) Three breaths.
(b) Three words.
(c) Only three steps.
(d) Only three seconds.

8. Who gives Joe his non-Indian heritage?
(a) A grandparent.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His great Scottish grandmother.

9. Who is Martin Lap?
(a) A Russian architect.
(b) A Siberian tracker.
(c) An American pilot.
(d) A Lithuanian poet.

10. Where does Mack say he will take both Natalya and her father?
(a) America.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Britain.
(d) Paris.

11. Why did the Indians lose to the white man according to Joe?
(a) The Indians did not know how to fight short term battles.
(b) The white man attacked in spring and caught them by surprise.
(c) The Indians were not good at fighting in the cold.
(d) The white man had better armour.

12. Why is Zhikarev so worried?
(a) His feet are feeling better.
(b) The recent batch of furs is poor in quality.
(c) His cabbage soup is too thin.
(d) Wulff is normally more reserved.

13. How many moccasins could Joe make from the reindeer?
(a) About 14 pairs.
(b) Only one pair.
(c) Easily nine pairs.
(d) Only four pairs.

14. Why does Evgeny Zhilarev wear slippers?
(a) He doesn't want to make any noise.
(b) He finds them more fashionable.
(c) His feet are crippled.
(d) He never wears shoes.

15. How far away is Joe when Alekhin visits Vanyushin?
(a) Fifty minutes.
(b) Fifty miles.
(c) Fifteen miles.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mack think Alekhin will be harder to hide from?

2. What puzzles Jack about Yakov?

3. Where is Kyra sent?

4. What does Shepilov not have in Kyra's eyes?

5. Why does Wulff not want Kyra around?

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