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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and "The Line".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flavoring is Pushkin tasked to add to his collective’s product?
(a) Cinammon.
(b) Onion.
(c) Vanilla.
(d) Nutmeg.

2. In what year do Pushkin and Irina move to Moscow?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

3. What quality is ascribed to the artist with whom Pushkin confers?
(a) Magnanimity.
(b) Loquaciousness.
(c) Perspicacity.
(d) Officiousness.

4. The store to which Irina dispatches Pushkin for sugar is on what street?
(a) Battleship Potemkin.
(b) Maxim Gorky.
(c) Tverskaya.
(d) Povarskaya.

5. In whose memory is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Stephen Pilsner Towles.
(b) Stanley Stout Towles.
(c) Stuart Bock Towles.
(d) Stokley Porter Towles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does “The Line” gloss the term “mir”?

2. For what collective do Pushkin and Irina initially work in Moscow?

3. In what Moscow district do Irina and Pushkin initially take up residence?

4. How long is the bakery queue with Pushkin first reaches it?

5. For how many hours does Pushkin wait for cabbage?

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