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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Leo get fired from his teaching job?
(a) He refuses to work for free.
(b) He teaches anti-Communist lessons.
(c) He does not show up on time.
(d) He does not know what he is teaching.

2. Who does Kira go to the ballet with?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Leo.
(d) Victor.

3. How does Vasili feel about the revolution?
(a) He thinks that the revolution will provide him with new business opportunities.
(b) He believes things will return to how they were before the revolution.
(c) He feels that the revolution was a good thing.
(d) He is planning on leaving the country.

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

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

6. Where does the black market form?
(a) The capitol.
(b) The railway station.
(c) Alexander's textile shop.
(d) Crimea.

7. Who owns a factory before the revolution?
(a) Vasili.
(b) Victor.
(c) Distant relatives of Kira.
(d) Alexander.

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

9. What does Kira consider her time with Leo to be?
(a) Indescribable.
(b) Life.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Love.

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

11. Why do Kira and her family flee?
(a) Crime.
(b) Lack of jobs.
(c) War.
(d) Disease.

12. Where does Kira's family stay in the city?
(a) With Kira's older brother.
(b) At their old house.
(c) With Kira's aunt.
(d) At a boarding house.

13. Where does Leo end up working after he starts going to the University?
(a) At the Technological Institute.
(b) For the Communists.
(c) At the university.
(d) At the state's publishing company.

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

15. What business does Alexander begin?
(a) Bookkeeping.
(b) Textile factory.
(c) Pig processing.
(d) Soap making.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Marisha about the available room in Kira and Leo's apartment?

2. How does Lydia react to the return of her piano?

3. When Kira serves only bread and onions for supper, what does she say?

4. Who gets elected to a position at the rally Kira attends?

5. Who interrupts Leo and Kira's trip?

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