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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters IV through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kira not pick up her student rations one night?
(a) Someone else took her ration.
(b) She is angry with her family.
(c) She is busy thinking of Leo.
(d) She has no way to pick them up.

2. Who says that Kira is "selfish" and "anti-social"?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Vasili.
(c) Victor.
(d) Lydia.

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

4. How do Vasili and Alexander feel about the Communist Party?
(a) They admit they don't know much about it.
(b) They wish they had started it.
(c) They are excited to join it.
(d) They are reluctant to join it.

5. Who does Kira meet in the park for the first time?
(a) Leo.
(b) Andrei.
(c) A communist officer.
(d) Victor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kira's family travel on the "threshold of a box car"?

2. How are Vasili and Alexander similar before the revolution?

3. How is Kira's family surviving financially?

4. What year is it in the beginning of this book?

5. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

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