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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Kira respond to the mandatory excursion guides' meeting?
(a) She signs a contract.
(b) She is able to repeat all the pro-party propaganda.
(c) She can not remember anything they said.
(d) She left the meeting early.

4. What does Kira do during Leo's absence?
(a) She stays home alone.
(b) She lives with Andrei.
(c) She starts a business.
(d) She finds a new job.

5. Who wonders what they have done to "another man's soul"?
(a) Sonia.
(b) Kira.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Leo.

6. Why does Kira wear old clothes to work?
(a) Because she likes them.
(b) Because she doesn't have money for new ones.
(c) Because Leo won't buy her new ones.
(d) Because it keeps up the appearance that she needs her job.

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

8. What does Kira give her mother?
(a) Food.
(b) A dress.
(c) Money.
(d) Furniture.

9. What do the doctors tell Leo?
(a) That he has two years to live.
(b) That he needs to go north.
(c) That his bones are weak.
(d) That he has tuberculosis.

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

11. What does Leo buy once he has money?
(a) Foreign-made clothes.
(b) He hides his money.
(c) Food.
(d) Alcohol.

12. Why does Victor feel he might get a better job?
(a) Because he told on Irina.
(b) Because he has worked hard.
(c) Because a better job opened up.
(d) Because he has a degree.

13. Who discovers that he is the father of Sonia's unborn child?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Leo.
(c) Karp.
(d) Victor.

14. Why does Kira chase after the train Leo is in?
(a) She forgot to say goodbye.
(b) She wants to go with him.
(c) She is overtaken with fear.
(d) She wants to tell him about Andrei.

15. What does Vasili try to do after he is released from prison?
(a) To have Sasha and Irina sent to the same prison.
(b) To have Victor sent to prison.
(c) To have Victor free Sasha and Irina.
(d) To have Irina stay at a prison near home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrei ask Kira when he gives her a nightgown?

2. What does Kira say lies in education?

3. What is the "hard legacy" Stepan leaves Andrei?

4. According to Stepan, what does dying of "ceaseless toil" mean?

5. Who does Pavel go after for his share of the money?

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