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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tonia?
(a) A friend of Kira's.
(b) A woman Leo met at the sanatorium.
(c) Andrei's sister.
(d) A communist Leo befriends.

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

3. What is Tonia's relationship to Leo as of Chapter 13?
(a) She is trying to take him as a lover.
(b) She is a long lost relative.
(c) She is an ex-girlfriend.
(d) She is a partner in the food store.

4. What does Andrei ask Kira when he gives her a nightgown?
(a) Andrei asks Kira to lie for him.
(b) Andrei asks Kira to marry him and move from Russia.
(c) Andrei asks Kira to help hide him from the Communist Party.
(d) Andrei asks Kira to leave Leo.

5. Who does Kira meet that is against the Communist Party?
(a) Irina.
(b) Tonia.
(c) Karp.
(d) Sasha.

6. Why does Kira need more money after she and Leo are expelled?
(a) To move back with her family.
(b) To send to her family.
(c) To go to school.
(d) To send Leo to a sanatorium.

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

8. Who does Leo meet in the sanatorium?
(a) A priest.
(b) His long-lost aunt.
(c) A young woman.
(d) A wealthy woman.

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

10. What happens to Kira at the House of Peasants?
(a) She is asked to take a pay cut.
(b) Her coworkers make fun of her.
(c) She is given a raise.
(d) She is dismissed from her job.

11. What does Kira point out about her presence in Andrei's life?
(a) That she wants to see him more.
(b) That she won't be good for his career.
(c) That she is only in it some of the time.
(d) That she is good for him as a person.

12. What does Leo buy for Victor's wedding?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Wine.
(d) A vase.

13. According to Stepan, what does dying of "ceaseless toil" mean?
(a) Disease.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Secret murder.

14. What does the G.P.U. offer Andrei when they ask him to drop his investigation of the food store?
(a) A promotion to a different department.
(b) A promotion or to be kicked out of the party.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Irina say is trying to be "broadminded" when it comes to Victor's political choices?

3. What happens to Victor at the beginning of Chapter 9?

4. Why does Kira find it hard to be in the same room with Leo?

5. Why does Andrei decide to investigate the food store?

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