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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. Mrs. Graham tells Frank she would never suggest Miss Kinsman as a governess as she knows what?
(a) Why she left her previous position.
(b) She cannot manage three children.
(c) Miss Kinsman yearns to return home.
(d) Why Nellie left.

2. Since Lisa's haircut, Frank what?.
(a) Is able to make a few polite comments.
(b) Disagrees with Dolly.
(c) Is overwhelmed by her beauty.
(d) Tries to avoid looking at Lisa.

3. As Lisa cut her hair at Frank's request, Dolly says he ought to what?
(a) Not make a big deal about it.
(b) Pay for the cutting.
(c) Say something about it.
(d) Say nothing.

4. When does the wood arrive at Reid Press?
(a) After the ice melts in the spring.
(b) After Kuriatin talks with the distributor he employs.
(c) After Kuriatin talks with the manager he employs.
(d) After paying a few small bribes.

5. In Chapter 13, what does Selwyn have concern about?
(a) Frank's children.
(b) The giant press.
(c) Lisa.
(d) His book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Subsequent to his initial apprenticeship, where does Frank transfer to?

2. What town does Lisa come from?

3. Where does Frank work in Frankfurt, Germany?

4. Which two individuals make a knowing comment to Frank about his hiring Lisa so soon after Nellie leaves?

5. What is the name of Frank's company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Frank to ask Nellie if he should get crosses for Dolly and Ben following Annushka's birth?

2. Subsequent to his questioning by the Security Police, while walking with Volodya after they exit the Ministry of Defense in a brief discussion, Frank spots something across the square that prompts him to do what next?

3. What is Frank's answer to Selwyn in Chapter 10 when he asks how his book, Birch Tree Thoughts, is going?

4. What does Frank do after informing his household staff of Nellie's and the children's departure?

5. What sort of description does Penelope Fitzgerald provide of Tvyordov, the chief compositor?

6. What does Frank tell those he finds awake when he arrives home after the break-in?

7. What are some of the proposals the new cost accountant, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bernov, offers on his first day of work at Reid Press?

8. Dolly is very clingy on the morning the children return from their visit to the dacha with Lisa, but Lisa is not with them, so Frank allows her to stay with him until noon when he takes her home and they encounter what?

9. What takes place at four in the afternoon, the very first day Bernov arrives for work?

10. In the first paragraph of Chapter 1, what situation occurs, the resolution of which is the main thrust of the tale?

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