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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 do the Argounovas and Petrovnas spend their time?
(a) Planning a revolution.
(b) Catching up and sharing news.
(c) Planning a joint business venture.
(d) Trying to make money.

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

3. When Kira and Leo discuss their future, what do they talk about?
(a) Engineering degrees.
(b) Crimea.
(c) Communism.
(d) Getting married.

4. Who says "easier to get one--than two--out of the G.P.U."?
(a) Leo.
(b) Kira.
(c) Stepan.
(d) Andrei.

5. Who does Kira go to the ballet with?
(a) Leo.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Victor.
(d) Alexander.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Alexander begin?

2. How does Kira's family react to Andrei?

3. Where does Leo end up working after he starts going to the University?

4. How does Kira's father get the apartment?

5. What does Kira find to be "ignoble"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Kira think that returning to Petrograd is the start of something wonderful?

8. Why does Victor say that Kira's wish to become an engineer is inappropriate?

9. Why does Andrei order soup for Kira?

10. Why does Leo feel there is much against him and Kira?

(see the answer keys)

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