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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Yegudkins go after leaving Russia?
(a) To Greece.
(b) To India.
(c) To Europe.
(d) To China.

2. What does the person in the barn say to him while he is working with the cows?
(a) "Can you look at this for me, Jack?"
(b) "What time is it, Jackie?"
(c) "You all right there, Jackie?"
(d) "Need any help, Jackie?"

3. Who takes Yegudkin and his wife away from their home?
(a) The Bolsheviks.
(b) The Army of the United States.
(c) The Polish National Army.
(d) The Nazis.

4. What does Jack think about while preparing the cow for the milking machine later in evening after his lunch with Phoebe?
(a) His need to get away for awhile.
(b) His father.
(c) His lack of friends.
(d) His school work.

5. Who is on the sidewalk with Jack as he leaves his lesson to go home?
(a) Smiling, happy shoppers.
(b) Dazed, smiling shoppers.
(c) Smiling, excited shoppers.
(d) Dazed, irritable shoppers.

6. Where does Jack take his French horn lessons?
(a) New York University.
(b) The Eastman School of Music.
(c) The Julliard School.
(d) The New School.

7. A few nights after his lunch with Phoebe, what does Jack notice when he comes into the kitchen after work one evening?
(a) All of the lights are on.
(b) The house is unusually quiet.
(c) His sister is practicing her piano.
(d) His mother is asleep on the couch.

8. How does Jack feel as he nears the homecoming scene?
(a) Exhausted and childlike.
(b) Happy and grateful.
(c) Dizzy and nauseated.
(d) Relieved and exhausted.

9. What does Yegudkin talk about while Jack is resting between pieces?
(a) His experience of leaving Russia.
(b) The United States and it's military power.
(c) The United States and Russia.
(d) His hatred of America.

10. How do Phoebe and Jack's mother react to Dale's return?
(a) They are laughing and happy.
(b) The are screaming at him for being gone.
(c) They are quiet and listening to Dale's stories.
(d) They are crying and hugging him.

11. What does Jack to do avoid family togetherness since his father's return?
(a) He spends all his time locked in his room.
(b) He plays his French horn.
(c) He leaves on his father's motorcycle.
(d) He reads about foreign travels.

12. How does Jack feel about his mother and sister's reactions to Dale's readings in public?
(a) He dislikes how rude they are in church.
(b) He dislikes how they smile, cry, and lift their heads.
(c) He dislikes how they are faking their tears.
(d) He dislikes all of the attention they give Dale.

13. How does Yegudkin's wife survive their ordeal?
(a) She is terribly crippled from the gunshots.
(b) She is left behind and lives in a work camp.
(c) She is hardly harmed by the soldiers.
(d) She is blinded by the wounds she received.

14. How does the graduate student react to his teacher's horn playing?
(a) He sits, hands in the air, stunned.
(b) He sits, hands on his knees, in a daze.
(c) He sits, arms crossed, dismayed.
(d) He sits, legs folded, and waits.

15. What makes Jack turn his head and look up while he is thinking and preparing the cows for milking in the barn?
(a) HIs uncle speaks to him.
(b) His mother come to talk to him.
(c) One of the farmhands needs help.
(d) His cousin asks him a question.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Jack take his horn lessons?

2. When Jack opens the living room door, what is his father doing in the living room?

3. What is Jack's horn teacher's nickname?

4. How does the narrator describe the look in Yegudkin's eyes as he handles the Alexander?

5. Since his return home, what about Dale's public readings does Jack disdain?

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