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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kuriatin offers to assume total control of Frank's children, which greatly impresses Bernov, but Frank advises what?
(a) Kuriatin is not sufficiently responsible.
(b) Kuriatin is far too busy.
(c) Kuriatin does not really mean it.
(d) Kuriatin has too many children of his own.

2. As Frank tells Lisa to answer Ben's query about why it is better for women now than ten years ago, she puts down her spoon and responds how?
(a) He might understand the answer better were he older.
(b) She does not feel Ben would understand the answer.
(c) She feels it is unkind asking more of anyone than they can give.
(d) She does not believe she knows how to explain.

3. Chapter 18 opens with Charlie admiring Moscow and viewing Frank's life as being out of what literary tale?
(a) Arabian Nights.
(b) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(c) Sinbad the Adventurer.
(d) Gulliver's Travels.

4. In seeing him off at the station, Frank realizes Charlie seems to have forgotten what?
(a) His hat.
(b) The main goal of his visit.
(c) Some of the packages he was taking.
(d) Where it was he was heading.

5. The Defense Ministry informs Frank of what?
(a) They could legally invalidate all his exit permits.
(b) They could withhold all his exit permits.
(c) They could legally suspend all his exit permits.
(d) They could invalidate all his exit permits.

6. The night she follows Lisa in the woods outside the dacha, why is Dolly limping?
(a) Lisa is walking too fast.
(b) She is not wearing socks.
(c) She twists her ankle
(d) Her shoes are untied.

7. Which of the children does Frank tell Dolly he plans take to meet Charlie?
(a) Only Ben.
(b) None of them.
(c) Only Dolly.
(d) All of them.

8. Before Frank goes to his dacha to collect Lisa and his children, why does he get a Defense Ministry notice releasing him of responsibility for Volodya?
(a) Volodya has finished the university.
(b) Volodya is in preventive detention.
(c) Volodya has returned to his home village.
(d) Volodya is undergoing psychiatric treatment.

9. The Reid dacha is closely surrounded by trees as the forest had been cut when?
(a) Regularly, but cleared occasionally.
(b) Regularly, and cleared frequently.
(c) Very rarely, and never cleared.
(d) Occasionally, but never cleared.

10. After Lisa and the children depart on Palm Sunday, Frank gets a call from which division within the Ministry of Defense?
(a) Communications.
(b) Political.
(c) Security.
(d) Information.

11. Who informs the police of the break-in?
(a) Two printing apprentices.
(b) The night watchman.
(c) Selwyn.
(d) Tvyordov.

12. Where does Kuriatin take Charlie outing in his Wolseley car, with Bernov as an interpreter, at the start of Chapter 19?
(a) The Moscow Cathedral.
(b) The Chaplaincy.
(c) The Merchants' Church.
(d) The Merchant's Market.

13. The night prior to Charlie leaving, when he suggests Lisa accompany him with the children en route home to ease Frank's mind, Frank asks what?
(a) Why does he think the children should leave.
(b) If he has asked her.
(c) If Nellie will meet them.
(d) Who will take care of the children in Norbury.

14. In Chapter 14, what does Frank find upon arriving at work after hours?
(a) A student sitting at a stool.
(b) An individual ransacking his office.
(c) Tvyordov working.
(d) The night watchman sleeping.

15. What is the quickest way to the Reid dacha after getting off at the nearby village railroad station?
(a) Taking a path paralleling a stream.
(b) Walking through the woods.
(c) Along a winding trail in the woods.
(d) Following a roundabout way by horse and cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tvyordov relates he is thinking of working in England just long enough so he can retire to his home village, Frank responds how?

2. When Frank meets them across the square on Palm Sunday, what do the children do?

3. When Frank says he thinks Volodya did not intend to kill him during the burglary, Volodya first replies how?

4. When Frank inquires, how does Lisa say she knows Volodya?

5. When Frank asks Lisa what she is going to say to him as she departs with the children for the dacha, she responds how after a brief pause?

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