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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Andrei's college advisor used to do?
(a) Play basketball.
(b) Play soccer.
(c) Play hockey.
(d) Play football.

2. Where is Emma Abramovna's dacha?
(a) Barvikha.
(b) Zhukovka.
(c) Komarovo.
(d) Peredelkino.

3. When did Andrei's mother die?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1992.

4. When was Baba Seva born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1916.

5. When does Andrei move to Moscow to take care of his grandmother?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2006.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sonya, the girl Andrei meets on a dating site in Chapter 5, from?

2. When did Jewish-Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo defect to the USSR?

3. When the financial crisis hit in America, how much was Andrei's pay cut because he could only have three classes?

4. For which Summer Olympics was the Olympic Stadium in Moscow built?

5. When did Emma Abramovna's daughter emigrate to Israel?

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