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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Alexander's business?
(a) It makes enough money to survive.
(b) It makes only a little money.
(c) It fails.
(d) He has to put it on "hold".

3. What does Kira enroll as when she fills out her labor card?
(a) A visitor.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A laborer.
(d) A student.

4. Why do people leave Vava's in groups?
(a) Because the streets were not safe.
(b) Because they might get lost.
(c) Because they were great friends.
(d) Because Vava forced them.

5. What does Sonia tell Kira how to do?
(a) Vote.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Rally.
(d) Petition.

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

7. How do Kira and Leo travel?
(a) By car.
(b) By foot.
(c) By ship.
(d) By train.

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

9. How does Kira try to have Marisha thrown out of the apartment?
(a) Kira hides her Communist Union of Youth card.
(b) Kira tricks Marisha.
(c) Kira asks Leo to put her stuff on the street.
(d) Kira gives money to the Upravdom.

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

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

12. How old is Kira?
(a) 28.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 19.

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

14. When Kira serves only bread and onions for supper, what does she say?
(a) That she was too tired to cook.
(b) That she actually really likes fried onions.
(c) That Leo needs to get more food off the black market.
(d) That she already ate her portion.

15. Why can't Leo find a job?
(a) Because he is not a member of a trade union.
(b) Because he was fired from his last job.
(c) Because he did not finish school.
(d) Because he is not looking for one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leo end up working after he starts going to the University?

2. What political party is in command of Russia?

3. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

4. What does Kira find to be "ignoble"?

5. Where does Leo say he is going the night Kira finds out she won't be questioned any further?

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