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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is General Korchnoi's position?
(a) He is Director of the SVR's Helsinki station.
(b) He is Chief of the Middle Eastern Department.
(c) He is Chief of the Americas Department.
(d) He is Chief of the France Department.

2. Where does Nate meet Dominika as she gets off the No. 4 trolley to take her to her first safe-house meeting as an agent in Chapter 17?
(a) Khamovniki.
(b) Mescha.
(c) Malenkovskaya Ulitsa.
(d) Tiilimaki.

3. In what restaurant are Nate and Gable eating in the opening of Chapter 16?
(a) Nasarenko Restaurant..
(b) India Prankkari.
(c) Jean Georges.
(d) Perry Street.

4. Approximately how old is MARBLE said to be in Chapter 1?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his fifties.
(c) In his forties.
(d) In his seventies.

5. What kind of tablet does Dominika pop before seducing Ustinov in Chapter 4?
(a) Ecstacy.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Mescaline.
(d) Benzedrine.

6. Referring to the AVR, the narrator states in Chapter 6, "The school had been renamed several times during the Cold War, from the Higher Intelligence School to the Red Banner Institute to the AVR, but veterans simply called it" what (62)?
(a) School No. 6.
(b) School No. 101.
(c) School No. 432.
(d) School No. 113.

7. What recipe concludes Chapter 5?
(a) "Sophie's Vinaigrette."
(b) "Pytt i Panna."
(c) "Ustinov's Rustic Pate."
(d) "SVR Cafeteria Chicken Kiev."

8. What word does Nate use in Chapter 16 to describe "The whole national myth--the Motherland, the soil, the hymns, chasing Nazis across the steppes" (204)?
(a) Rodina.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Patriotism.

9. Referring to her training at the Sparrow School, Dominika "told herself this wasn't love. This school, this mansion secluded behind walls topped with broken glass, was an engine of the state that institutionalized and dehumanized love. It didn't count, it was physical sex, it was training, like" what (92)?
(a) Painting.
(b) Math class.
(c) Ballet school.
(d) Army training.

10. When did the changeover from KGB to SVR occur?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1988.

11. Who oversees Dominika in her assignment in Chapter 10?
(a) Maxim Volontov.
(b) Simon Delon.
(c) Anatoly Golov.
(d) Dimitri Ustinov.

12. What does the word "tricoteuse" translate to in English (193)?
(a) A potato.
(b) A sitting duck.
(c) A man in armor.
(d) A knitting woman.

13. Where has Marta spent her evening when she arrives home in Chapter 15?
(a) At a café.
(b) At a bookstore.
(c) At a friend's house.
(d) At a library.

14. What does the narrator translate the word "izmena" to in English in Chapter 12 (168)?
(a) Woman.
(b) Treason.
(c) Parakeet.
(d) Location.

15. How old is Nate Nash said to be in Chapter 1?
(a) 31.
(b) 27.
(c) 32.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color mantle does Dominika see when she meets Gable?

2. Where does Dominika travel for the assignment given to her by Egorov in Chapter 10?

3. What is the vermilion lamb stew called that Gable orders at the restaurant in Chapter 16?

4. Who was the initiator of creation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the August Coup of 1991?

5. What kind of dog do Jaana and her husband have?

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