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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kira learn about Galina the night she visits Kira's apartment?
(a) That she is leaning toward Communism.
(b) That she has turned against Communism.
(c) That she is ill.
(d) That she is mad at Lydia.

2. What does Andrei ask Kira the night he admits he had to stop seeing her?
(a) Andrei asks Kira to marry him.
(b) Andrei asks Kira if she needs money.
(c) Andrei asks Kira to move in with him.
(d) Andrei asks Kira if she needs food.

3. What does Galina offer Kira when she visits her with things to sell?
(a) A stack of paper.
(b) Her furniture.
(c) Her wedding dress.
(d) Money.

4. How does Leo feel about Tonia?
(a) He feels she has good connections.
(b) He says he needs to meet her more than once to know how he feels.
(c) He feels jealous.
(d) He feels she is useless to him.

5. Why does Andrei give Kira money?
(a) He has extra money that month.
(b) Kira mentions her financial situation.
(c) He knows she secretly needs it.
(d) He wants to help Leo.

6. What does Kira ask Leo to do after his night at the casino?
(a) Kira asks Leo to stop the food store business.
(b) Kira asks Leo to leave Russia with her.
(c) Kira asks Leo to give the money to Pavel.
(d) Kira asks Leo not to go out with Tonia again.

7. Who questions Andrei's right to have an opinion of his own?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Kira.
(c) Sonia.
(d) Leo.

8. Who does Pavel go after for his share of the money?
(a) Karp.
(b) Kira.
(c) Leo.
(d) Victor.

9. How does Andrei describe Kira's feelings for him the night they go to the club?
(a) He says he is disappointed.
(b) He says it is impossible.
(c) He says he isn't surprised.
(d) He says it is great.

10. What does Andrei discover in the second wardrobe in Leo's room?
(a) A note from Pavel.
(b) Counter-revolutionary literature.
(c) Kira's clothing.
(d) Smuggled food.

11. Who leads the group of soldiers into Leo's apartment?
(a) Victor.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Karp.

12. Who is told that they don't have many friends left in the Communist Party?
(a) Sonia.
(b) Victor.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Pavel.

13. Who tells Leo about their idea for a food store?
(a) Karp.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Tonia.

14. What is the "hard legacy" Stepan leaves Andrei?
(a) A letter of expulsion from the Communist Party.
(b) His uniform.
(c) Pavel's note.
(d) A small amount of money.

15. How does Tonia describe her relationship with the food store?
(a) She says she owns her own food store.
(b) She says she helped fund the store.
(c) She says she is a full partner.
(d) She says she knows nothing of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vasili say he always wanted a son?

2. How does Kira respond to the mandatory excursion guides' meeting?

3. When Leo returns from the sanatorium, what does Kira note about his eyes?

4. What does Andrei confess he is worried about when Kira pretends to attend a meeting, but visits him instead?

5. What does Vasili try to do after he is released from prison?

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