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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kira feel about the food store?
(a) She has no opinion.
(b) She says he'd be smart to take part in it.
(c) She says she isn't sure how she feels yet.
(d) She says Leo is putting his life on the line.

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

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

4. Why does Kira find it hard to be in the same room with Leo?
(a) Because of her relationship with Andrei.
(b) Because they were fighting about money.
(c) Because of his illness.
(d) Because he had criticized her.

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

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

7. What happens to Kira at the Institute?
(a) She stops going to class.
(b) She wins an award.
(c) She graduates.
(d) She gets expelled.

8. 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.

9. Why does Vasili say he always wanted a son?
(a) Because he had to pass on the business.
(b) Because he wanted to pass on his name.
(c) Because there were too many women.
(d) Because he can completely trust a son.

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

11. Who is education "for" in the USSR?
(a) People with money.
(b) Only men.
(c) Those loyal to the state.
(d) Everyone.

12. How long is Leo at the sanatorium?
(a) Six months.
(b) A year.
(c) Two months.
(d) Eight months.

13. What does Kira tell Andrei after Leo's arrest?
(a) Kira tells Andrei that she "sold" herself to him.
(b) Kira tells Andrei she wants to join the Communist Party.
(c) Kira tells Andrei that she loves him.
(d) Kira tells Andrei to take her home.

14. Why does Andrei decide to investigate the food store?
(a) To impress Kira.
(b) To start a fight with Pavel.
(c) To put Leo out of business.
(d) To test the Communist Party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says they have nothing for a future?

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

3. Who are partners in the food store?

4. Why does Andrei tell Kira he had to stop seeing her?

5. Who does Leo meet in the sanatorium?

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