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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Nadya deliver to Lenin in the beginning of the play?
(a) Trotsky has been exiled from Russia.
(b) The revolution has begun in St. Petersburg.
(c) The czar has abdicated.
(d) She is pregnant.

2. To what country's system of government does Bennett compare the anticipate Russian state at the end of his explanation of Marxist?
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

3. What two items are mentioned several times in this section as part of a time slip?
(a) Ties and ascots.
(b) Newspapers and telegrams.
(c) Fruits and cheeses.
(d) Cufflinks and studs.

4. To what symbol of nonviolence does Carr compare Switzerland in his monologue?
(a) A plowshare.
(b) An olive branch.
(c) A white flag.
(d) A dove.

5. What does Bennett think are the odds against Lenin prevailing in Russia?
(a) 10,000 to 1.
(b) 1 million to 1.
(c) 1 billion to 1.
(d) 1,000 to 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tzara leave in Carr's drawing room on his last visit?

2. What is the profession of the man who has Lenin as a tenant, according to Carr?

3. What color does Carr recall Lenin's eyes being?

4. According to Tzara, how do Communists like their art?

5. In what year was Lenin forced into exile from Russia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tzara distrust beauty and reason?

2. How is Lenin surprised by the Russian Revolution?

3. How does Bennett become an asset to Lenin?

4. What are time slips?

5. What opinion do the Bolsheviks have regarding bourgeois-capitalist democracy in Russia?

6. What does Lenin ask Nadya to do when he is imprisoned in St. Petersburg?

7. How does Joyce convince Carr to take the role of Algernon?

8. What caveat does Gwen give in accepting Tzara's proposal?

9. What request is made of Carr by the British government at the end of the scene?

10. Why does Cecily believe the British are unusually bumbling in their spying on Lenin?

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