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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. How is Kira's family surviving financially?
(a) Selling their ration cards.
(b) They are living off of their savings.
(c) The textile store.
(d) The soap business.

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

3. Why does Kira stay away from her and Leo's garden meeting place?
(a) She does not want to see it without him.
(b) She promised not to return there.
(c) She is angry at Leo.
(d) She fears she might see him with someone else.

4. What year is it in the beginning of this book?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

5. 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 doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.
(c) She hides her truest feelings even from herself.
(d) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Kira's youth she...

2. What does Victor study?

3. Maria and Vasili's family can best be described as ______?

4. How do the Argounovas and Petrovnas spend their time?

5. How does Kira's father get the apartment?

(see the answer key)

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