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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: “1954: Applause and Acclaim” — “Adulthood”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Count enters the ballroom in Book 2: "1926: Adieu," Nina explains that she and her friend are testing the "hypotheses of two renowned mathematicians in a single experiment." Who are the mathematicians being tested?
(a) Aristotle and Plato.
(b) Pythagoras and Einstein.
(c) Newton and Galileo.
(d) Einstein and Galileo.

2. How much is Sofia described as weighing in Book 3: "Adjustments"?
(a) 60 pounds.
(b) 40 pounds.
(c) 30 pounds.
(d) 50 pounds.

3. What are the names of the bellhops at the Hotel Metropol?
(a) Pavel and Arkady.
(b) Pasha and Petya.
(c) Audrius and Fyodor.
(d) Emile and Andrey.

4. Who is manning the front desk at the Hotel Metropol when the Count arrives in Book 1: "1922: An Ambassador"?
(a) Arkady.
(b) Fyodor.
(c) Emile.
(d) Pavel.

5. Who wrote the essay on cannibalism that Sofia is reading in Book 3: "Antics, Antitheses, an Accident"?
(a) Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich.
(b) Michel de Montaigne.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Alexander Warren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Rostov give as his current address in the court transcript that appears before the opening of Book 1?

2. When did the Count's father have his clock commissioned?

3. Whose work will Sofia be performing with the orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory in Paris in Book 5: "1954: Applause and Acclaim"?

4. Where was the Count born?

5. On what date was Nikolai Bukharin "outmaneuvered by Stalin and ousted from the Poliburo," according to the narrator in Book 3: "Arachne's Art"?

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