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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How does Lydia respond when Andrei asks her to play the piano?
(a) She says she is tired.
(b) She plays the song for him again.
(c) She tells him no.
(d) She tells him she wants him to play.

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

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

6. 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 doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.
(d) She finds them to control her and she sometimes disagrees with them.

7. What does Victor study?
(a) Victor does not go to school.
(b) Art.
(c) Law.
(d) Engineering.

8. Who is Andrei?
(a) A friend of Leo's.
(b) An elected official.
(c) A member of the G.P.U.
(d) An anti-communist speaker.

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

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

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

12. When Kira and Leo discuss their future, what do they talk about?
(a) Communism.
(b) Crimea.
(c) Engineering degrees.
(d) Getting married.

13. Who interrupts Leo and Kira's trip?
(a) A communist officer.
(b) Kira's family.
(c) Victor.
(d) Andrei.

14. What feeling does Kira worship?
(a) Gaiety.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Leo's father?

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

3. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

4. Why can't Leo find a job?

5. How is Kira's family surviving financially?

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