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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. Who tells Marisha about the available room in Kira and Leo's apartment?
(a) Leo.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Maria.
(d) Victor.

2. Where does the black market form?
(a) The railway station.
(b) The capitol.
(c) Crimea.
(d) Alexander's textile shop.

3. Where do Leo and Kira often escape?
(a) Leo's father's apartment.
(b) The country.
(c) Vava's.
(d) Petrograd.

4. 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 hides her truest feelings even from herself.
(c) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.
(d) She doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.

5. What does Kira consider her time with Leo to be?
(a) Indescribable.
(b) Love.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kira enroll as when she fills out her labor card?

2. Why does Kira not pick up her student rations one night?

3. Where does Kira go to work?

4. What has Vasili been doing with his possessions?

5. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Alexander closes his textile shop?

5. Why does Maria hide her handkerchiefs?

6. What is the purpose of the House of the Peasant?

7. How might Kira's family feel in the first three chapters?

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

9. How does Stepan help Leo and Kira after he barges into their cabin?

10. Why does Kira's sister say that Kira always gets her way?

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