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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 she is useless to him.
(d) He feels jealous.

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Andrei say is "friendly with the wrong kind of people"?
(a) Victor.
(b) Kira.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Leo.

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

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

10. What does Andrei confess he is worried about when Kira pretends to attend a meeting, but visits him instead?
(a) His relationship with Kira.
(b) Leo's safety.
(c) The future of the Communist Party.
(d) German counter-revolutionaries.

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

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

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

14. Victor's engineering degree and marriage should help him with what?
(a) Getting a better position in the Communist Party.
(b) Getting a loan for a bigger house.
(c) Feeling more successful than Kira.
(d) Becoming closer to his family.

15. Why has no one been assigned the extra rooms of Victor's apartment?
(a) Because he owns the apartment.
(b) Because he talked to a friend about it.
(c) Because Marisha won't allow him to rent them out.
(d) Because he will be arrested soon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Victor feel he might get a better job?

4. What does Kira ask Leo to do after his night at the casino?

5. Why is Leo likely to be the only one to stand trial after the investigation in the food store?

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