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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kira describe the way she responds to the feelings she has had throughout her life?
(a) She finds them to control her and she sometimes disagrees with them.
(b) She doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.
(c) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.
(d) She hides her truest feelings even from herself.

2. What does Galina ask Kira for?
(a) A place to live.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

3. What happens to Lenin in the spring of 1923?
(a) He gets re-elected.
(b) He loses power.
(c) He has a stroke.
(d) He dies.

4. Why does Lydia tell Kira that wicked women like her should not be allowed to live?
(a) Because Kira stole.
(b) Because Kira broke Lydia's piano.
(c) Because Kira disagreed with Lydia about Communism.
(d) Because Kira spent the night with Leo.

5. Who says that Kira is "selfish" and "anti-social"?
(a) Victor.
(b) Alexander.
(c) Vasili.
(d) Lydia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Andrei?

2. How does Lydia react to the return of her piano?

3. What of Kira's family's possessions is left?

4. What is Leo not allowed to see Kira do?

5. Who tells Marisha about the available room in Kira and Leo's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Alexander and Vasili reluctant to join the Communist Party?

2. How does Kira's family respond to her goal of becoming an engineer?

3. What happens when Alexander closes his textile shop?

4. What is interesting about Kira and Andrei's relationship?

5. What makes Andrei different from many other Communist supporters?

6. What does Kira realize, after becoming more comfortable with her living conditions, about Communism?

7. How are Sonia and Kira different?

8. Why does Kira have Andrei drop her off near her parents' apartment?

9. What does Kira pretending to be a prostitute reveal about her?

10. What happens to Leo's father's apartment?

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