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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maria and Vasili's family can best be described as ______?
(a) Struggling financially.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Government officials.

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

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

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

5. What happens when Kira meets Leo for the second time?
(a) They argue.
(b) They declare their love for each other.
(c) They agree to meet again a third time in a month.
(d) They get arrested.

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

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

8. 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 is not looking for one.
(d) Because he did not finish school.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vava ask the guests to bring?

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

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

4. What does Galina ask Kira for?

5. Why do people leave Vava's in groups?

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