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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters IX through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What business does Alexander begin?
(a) Pig processing.
(b) Textile factory.
(c) Bookkeeping.
(d) Soap making.

2. What does Andrei confess he is worried about when Kira pretends to attend a meeting, but visits him instead?
(a) Leo's safety.
(b) His relationship with Kira.
(c) The future of the Communist Party.
(d) German counter-revolutionaries.

3. Maria and Vasili's family can best be described as ______?
(a) Government officials.
(b) Struggling financially.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Revolutionaries.

4. How does Kira describe the way she responds to the feelings she has had throughout her life?
(a) She finds them to control her and she sometimes disagrees with them.
(b) She hides her truest feelings even from herself.
(c) She doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.
(d) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.

5. Why does Kira pretend to be a prostitute?
(a) She wants to earn extra money.
(b) She wants to stay with Leo.
(c) She is trying to avoid arrest.
(d) She wants to get a reaction out of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Kira and her family flee?

2. What political party is in command of Russia?

3. What does Leo tell Stepan?

4. Who says that Kira is "selfish" and "anti-social"?

5. What of Kira's family's possessions is left?

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