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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. In Chapter 5, how how does Andrei get paid bi-weekly for his PMOOC classes?
(a) $481.29.
(b) $432.17.
(c) $493.53.
(d) $448.59.

2. When did Dima buy an apartment across the landing for their grandmother's place?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1998.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where did Vanya go last year?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Dubai.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Istanbul.

4. What degree did Anton get from a top Moscow university?
(a) Math.
(b) Law.
(c) Economics.
(d) Physics.

5. When did Jewish-Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo defect to the USSR?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of a group that Sergei and his friends had organized?

2. How much does Fedya tell Andrei to bring to play hockey on a Wednesday in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 7, what color coat does Baba Sheva wear when she and Andrei go to her bank to convert her rubles to dollars?

4. What did Andrei's college advisor used to do?

5. For the first few years after Andrei's mother went to America, how often did she write Baba Seva?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Andrei go to do his classwork when his face is swollen in Chapter 7?

2. Why is Andrei late depositing the money for the rent into Dima's account, and does the delay cost or earn Dima money?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 2, how is Baba Seva's early history described?

4. How did Baba Seva and her second husband, Uncle Lev, lose their dacha?

5. In Chapter 6, what happens to Andrei went he goes out with Howard, Roberto, and Michael?

6. How did Andrei's parents remain bound to Russian even after they came to America?

7. How did Baba Seva meet her first husband, Andrei's grandfather, and how did he die?

8. What is it like when Andrei and his grandmother go grocery shopping?

9. Why does a man named Richard Sutherland contact Andrei in Chapter 6?

10. Why did Baba Seva lose her job at Moscow State, and how did she survive as a widow?

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