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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. Where do Kira and Lydia go together with Andrei?
(a) To Kira and Leo's apartment.
(b) A party.
(c) The railway station.
(d) To get rations.

2. What happens to Alexander's business?
(a) It fails.
(b) He has to put it on "hold".
(c) It makes only a little money.
(d) It makes enough money to survive.

3. What business does Alexander begin?
(a) Pig processing.
(b) Soap making.
(c) Textile factory.
(d) Bookkeeping.

4. What does Sonia tell Kira how to do?
(a) Vote.
(b) Rally.
(c) Revolt.
(d) Petition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kira go to work?

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

3. Why do Kira and her family flee?

4. Where does Leo say he is going the night Kira finds out she won't be questioned any further?

5. Who interrupts Leo and Kira's trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kira think that returning to Petrograd is the start of something wonderful?

2. What does Kira pretending to be a prostitute reveal about her?

3. What does Kira realize, after becoming more comfortable with her living conditions, about Communism?

4. How does Kira's family respond to her goal of becoming an engineer?

5. Why does Kira have Andrei drop her off near her parents' apartment?

6. What makes Andrei different from many other Communist supporters?

7. In what ways does Kira fail to follow the dictates of society?

8. Why does Victor say that Kira's wish to become an engineer is inappropriate?

9. What happens between Kira and the British woman?

10. How might Kira's family feel in the first three chapters?

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