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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters IV through VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kira find to be "ignoble"?
(a) Entertainment and joy.
(b) Family.
(c) Dancing girls.
(d) Work and effort.

2. How does Kira describe the way she responds to the feelings she has had throughout her life?
(a) She finds them to control her and she sometimes disagrees with them.
(b) She hides her truest feelings even from herself.
(c) She doesn't share them with strangers, only with close friends.
(d) She doesn't know what prompts them and can't identify them.

3. How do Vasili and Alexander feel about the Communist Party?
(a) They are excited to join it.
(b) They wish they had started it.
(c) They are reluctant to join it.
(d) They admit they don't know much about it.

4. What of Kira's family's possessions is left?
(a) A little bit of money.
(b) Galina's jewlery.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Lydia's piano.

5. How does Lydia react to the return of her piano?
(a) She rarely plays the piano.
(b) She says she was happier without it.
(c) She practices for three hours a day.
(d) She says they should sell it for extra money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Vasili and Alexander similar before the revolution?

2. Who is Andrei?

3. When Kira and Leo discuss their future, what do they talk about?

4. Who owns a factory before the revolution?

5. Why does Kira stay away from her and Leo's garden meeting place?

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