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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. What is the relationship between Victor and Kira?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Friends.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Brother and sister.

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

3. How do Kira and Leo travel?
(a) By car.
(b) By foot.
(c) By train.
(d) By ship.

4. Why does Leo get fired from his teaching job?
(a) He teaches anti-Communist lessons.
(b) He does not know what he is teaching.
(c) He refuses to work for free.
(d) He does not show up on time.

5. Who else is traveling the same way Kira and Leo are?
(a) Communists.
(b) Leo's family.
(c) No one else is traveling with them.
(d) Counter-revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

2. How does Galina react to the new apartment?

3. Where does the black market form?

4. Who gets elected to a position at the rally Kira attends?

5. How does Victor respond to Kira's plans for her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kira fear for Leo's safety after their second meeting?

2. What is significant about Kira deciding to leave with Leo?

3. What is dishonest about the method that Galina and Kira's family use for packing saccharine tablets and crystals for resale?

4. What sets Kira apart as an individual?

5. What happens between Kira and the British woman?

6. What is Kira's work environment like at the House of the Peasant?

7. What does Kira forget to do because she is too busy thinking about Leo?

8. Why does Andrei order soup for Kira?

9. What do the men who shovel snow reveal about Communism?

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

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