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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. What does Mitya give the dancing bear to drink at the party?
(a) Cider.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Milk.
(d) Water.

2. Frank initially takes on an apprenticeship where upon finishing his courses?
(a) At Culpeppers of Nottingham.
(b) At Croppers of Nottingham.
(c) At Coopers of Nottingham.
(d) At Croppers of Nottingham.

3. In Chapter 7, Frank believes Nellie will return, and he wires all the railway stations as far as where?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Paris.

4. At home, Frank hires Dunyasha to help Nellie with what?
(a) The children.
(b) The general care of the home.
(c) The cleaning.
(d) The cooking.

5. When Frank interviews Lisa Ivanovna, how do Dolly and Ben seem to take to her?
(a) Slowly initially.
(b) Not too easily.
(c) Very easily.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Frank says he does not know in response to Dolly's inquiry about her mother, how does Dolly reply?

2. In Chapter 6, Frank believes that foreigners will be able to run businesses in Moscow for how many more years?

3. In taking over Reidka, Frank learns which overseer has been cheating the employees?

4. How does Selwyn initially describe Lisa Ivanovna to Frank as?

5. What employment has Miss Kinsman been at when Frank meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank do after they leave the Defense Ministry that apparently prompts Volodya to suggest they forgive each other, and how does Frank initially respond?

2. What is Rusalochka's like?

3. How does Penelope Fitzgerald set the stage for Lisa's and Dolly's mysterious encounter in the woods surrounding the Reid dacha?

4. What are Frank's plans for spring cleaning of his residence in Moscow that appear in Chapter 26?

5. After Lisa brings the children in to say goodnight to him following his arrival home late one evening, what does Frank do?

6. 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?

7. What steps does Frank take to retrieve his children after receiving a phone call from the Alexander Station?

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

9. When Charlie arrives at the station, what is it Frank first inquires about?

10. What is it Selwin seeks to tell Frank at Rusalochka's, but is hesitant to do so in front of Kuriatin?

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