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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Argounovas and Petrovnas spend their time?
(a) Trying to make money.
(b) Planning a joint business venture.
(c) Planning a revolution.
(d) Catching up and sharing news.

2. What happens when Kira meets Leo for the second time?
(a) They argue.
(b) They declare their love for each other.
(c) They agree to meet again a third time in a month.
(d) They get arrested.

3. Why does Kira not pick up her student rations one night?
(a) Someone else took her ration.
(b) She has no way to pick them up.
(c) She is angry with her family.
(d) She is busy thinking of Leo.

4. What does Victor study?
(a) Law.
(b) Art.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Victor does not go to school.

5. Why does Kira ask Andrei if he feels like he is missing something?
(a) Because he hasn't loved anyone before.
(b) Because he was late to the opera.
(c) Because he belongs to the Communist Party.
(d) Because he does not belong to the Communist Party.

6. What does Kira say is able to evoke feelings of joy in her?
(a) Education.
(b) A song.
(c) Family.
(d) Travel.

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

8. Where do Leo and Kira often escape?
(a) The country.
(b) Leo's father's apartment.
(c) Petrograd.
(d) Vava's.

9. Why does Lydia tell Kira that wicked women like her should not be allowed to live?
(a) Because Kira broke Lydia's piano.
(b) Because Kira stole.
(c) Because Kira disagreed with Lydia about Communism.
(d) Because Kira spent the night with Leo.

10. Who is Leo's father?
(a) An admiral.
(b) A thief.
(c) A minister.
(d) A count.

11. Why does Kira's family travel on the "threshold of a box car"?
(a) Because there were not enough seats in the passenger cars.
(b) Because it was cheaper.
(c) Because they were late arriving to the station.
(d) Because it was the newest way to travel.

12. What happens at the rally Kira attends?
(a) People protest the revolution.
(b) People celebrate their history.
(c) People rally for more food.
(d) People are elected to positions in the government.

13. Who gets elected to a position at the rally Kira attends?
(a) Alexander.
(b) Vasili.
(c) Victor.
(d) Leo.

14. Why do Kira and her family flee?
(a) War.
(b) Lack of jobs.
(c) Disease.
(d) Crime.

15. What scares Kira away from buying food on the black market?
(a) A group of soldiers who were following her.
(b) Leo's scolding words.
(c) Seeing an old woman being revealed and arrested.
(d) A man with a gun hidden in his jacket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrei ask Kira after meeting her at the rally?

2. In Kira's youth she...

3. What does Kira send home to her family in the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. How does Victor respond to Kira's plans for her life?

5. Where does Kira's family stay in the city?

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