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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lydia tell Kira that wicked women like her should not be allowed to live?
(a) Because Kira broke Lydia's piano.
(b) Because Kira spent the night with Leo.
(c) Because Kira disagreed with Lydia about Communism.
(d) Because Kira stole.

3. How does Victor respond to Kira's plans for her life?
(a) He says he will help her.
(b) He calls her smart.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He says that women are needed in other areas.

4. What happens to Russia?
(a) It gains power over Europe.
(b) It becomes the USSR.
(c) Lenin dies.
(d) It dissolves.

5. Who says they cannot take on the duties of the G.P.U. again?
(a) Andrei.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Leo.
(d) Sonia.

6. What does Kira observe happening to her father?
(a) He seems dulled.
(b) He seems ill.
(c) He seems energized.
(d) He seems like he is thinking all the time.

7. How does Kira feel about their return to the city?
(a) That it is the beginning of something wonderful.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) That it's like they never left.
(d) That they may have been better to not return.

8. What job does Galina take?
(a) Teaching children Russian.
(b) Translating texts.
(c) Teaching children to sew.
(d) Sewing in a factory.

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

10. Who tells Kira to "get her claws" into Leo?
(a) Galina.
(b) Stepan.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Lydia.

11. Where do Kira and Lydia go together with Andrei?
(a) To Kira and Leo's apartment.
(b) To get rations.
(c) The railway station.
(d) A party.

12. How does Kira's family react to Andrei?
(a) They are cold to him.
(b) They offer him dinner.
(c) They argue with him.
(d) They welcome him warmly.

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

14. Who says "easier to get one--than two--out of the G.P.U."?
(a) Kira.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Leo.
(d) Stepan.

15. What happens at the rally Kira attends?
(a) People are elected to positions in the government.
(b) People protest the revolution.
(c) People celebrate their history.
(d) People rally for more food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Kira's family surviving financially?

2. Where does Kira's family stay in the city?

3. What is the apartment Kira's family moves into like?

4. What happens when Kira meets Leo for the second time?

5. What has Vasili been doing with his possessions?

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