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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Kira and Leo discuss their future, what do they talk about?
(a) Engineering degrees.
(b) Communism.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Crimea.

2. Where do Kira and her family arrive at the beginning of this book?
(a) Petrograd.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Crimea.

3. What feeling does Kira worship?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Gaiety.
(d) Love.

4. Why does Victor visit his family often?
(a) He is looking for food.
(b) He is bored.
(c) He is interested in Kira.
(d) He needs money.

5. Who is Andrei?
(a) An elected official.
(b) A member of the G.P.U.
(c) A friend of Leo's.
(d) An anti-communist speaker.

6. What does Kira consider her time with Leo to be?
(a) Love.
(b) Life.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Indescribable.

7. How old is Kira?
(a) 28.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

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

9. How does Vasili feel about the revolution?
(a) He is planning on leaving the country.
(b) He feels that the revolution was a good thing.
(c) He believes things will return to how they were before the revolution.
(d) He thinks that the revolution will provide him with new business opportunities.

10. How does Kira's family react to Andrei?
(a) They argue with him.
(b) They offer him dinner.
(c) They welcome him warmly.
(d) They are cold to him.

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

12. What does Kira say she wants to do with her life?
(a) Go to art school.
(b) Become an engineer.
(c) Kira hasn't decided yet.
(d) Become a dancer.

13. Whose illness becomes worse in the spring?
(a) Maria.
(b) Kira.
(c) Galina.
(d) Lydia.

14. Why does Leo get fired from his teaching job?
(a) He teaches anti-Communist lessons.
(b) He does not know what he is teaching.
(c) He does not show up on time.
(d) He refuses to work for free.

15. Where does Kira go to work?
(a) She teaches with Galina.
(b) The Technological Institute.
(c) House of the Peasant.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Galina return to their old home?

2. Where does Leo end up working after he starts going to the University?

3. What is Leo not allowed to see Kira do?

4. Who is not paid for their labor?

5. Kira's sister feels that Kira...

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