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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lydia react to the return of her piano?
(a) She says they should sell it for extra money.
(b) She practices for three hours a day.
(c) She says she was happier without it.
(d) She rarely plays the piano.

2. What does Kira send home to her family in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) A letter.
(b) New clothes.
(c) Money.
(d) A loaf of bread.

3. Who tells Kira that he trusts her, although he doesn't know why?
(a) Andrei.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Vasili.
(d) Leo.

4. Where does Kira go to work?
(a) The Technological Institute.
(b) She teaches with Galina.
(c) House of the Peasant.
(d) England.

5. Who is not paid for their labor?
(a) The men who shovel snow.
(b) Women.
(c) The Communist officers.
(d) The men who work as guards.

6. What does Leo tell Stepan?
(a) That he is sorry.
(b) That he is hungry.
(c) That he was traveling alone.
(d) That he will sign any confession.

7. What does Kira's family pack for resale to earn money?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Scrap lumber.
(c) Food.
(d) Saccharine tablets and crystals.

8. How does Galina react to the new apartment?
(a) She does not like the color.
(b) She is surprisingly pleased with it.
(c) She says she feels overwhelmed.
(d) She says it can be made into a home.

9. Kira's sister feels that Kira...
(a) Is manipulative.
(b) Always gets her way.
(c) Gives up easily.
(d) Is the favorite.

10. Who does Kira try to visit, but is refused?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Victor.
(d) Sonia.

11. What scares Kira away from buying food on the black market?
(a) A group of soldiers who were following her.
(b) Leo's scolding words.
(c) Seeing an old woman being revealed and arrested.
(d) A man with a gun hidden in his jacket.

12. Who else is traveling the same way Kira and Leo are?
(a) Leo's family.
(b) Counter-revolutionaries.
(c) Communists.
(d) No one else is traveling with them.

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

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

15. Why does Kira ask Andrei if he feels like he is missing something?
(a) Because he was late to the opera.
(b) Because he hasn't loved anyone before.
(c) Because he does not belong to the Communist Party.
(d) Because he belongs to the Communist Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Kira's family surviving financially?

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

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

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

5. What happens at the rally Kira attends?

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