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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 is Tonia?
(a) A communist Leo befriends.
(b) A woman Leo met at the sanatorium.
(c) Andrei's sister.
(d) A friend of Kira's.

2. Who will likely be a victim if the Communist Party purges itself after the investigation of the food store?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Sonia.
(d) Victor.

3. Why does the clerk at the food store feel they won't lose their job?
(a) Because they are a member of the Communist Party.
(b) Because Leo won't do the clerking.
(c) Because Andrei promised them protection.
(d) Because business is good.

4. Who wonders what they have done to "another man's soul"?
(a) Kira.
(b) Andrei.
(c) Sonia.
(d) Leo.

5. Who does Kira meet that is against the Communist Party?
(a) Karp.
(b) Irina.
(c) Sasha.
(d) Tonia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the G.P.U. offer Andrei when they ask him to drop his investigation of the food store?

3. Who tells Leo about their idea for a food store?

4. How long is Leo at the sanatorium?

5. Who leads the group of soldiers into Leo's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kira's influence over Andrei shown during the report on the agrarian situation?

2. How does Kira put Andrei's life in danger by sharing a secret?

3. Why does Andrei say Kira cannot return his love?

4. What does Katia tell Sasha one evening after Irina says she fears he will be exiled?

5. What is the food store?

6. What happens between Stepan and Karp at a club?

7. What happens when Kira comes home after Victor's wedding party?

8. How does Kira and Andrei's relationship change the night he confesses why he had to stop seeing her?

9. How does Andrei treat Kira in Part Two, Chapters 1 - 4?

10. Why has Stepan lost faith in the revolution/Communism?

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