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

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

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

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

5. What does Vava ask the guests to bring?
(a) Sheets.
(b) Food.
(c) Firewood.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kira describe the way she responds to the feelings she has had throughout her life?

2. What happens to Russia?

3. Why do people leave Vava's in groups?

4. Who does Kira go to the ballet with?

5. What happens to Lenin in the spring of 1923?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kira's sister say that Kira always gets her way?

2. What is Kira's work environment like at the House of the Peasant?

3. What does Kira forget to do because she is too busy thinking about Leo?

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

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

6. How does Stepan help Leo and Kira after he barges into their cabin?

7. Why does Maria hide her handkerchiefs?

8. What happens when Alexander closes his textile shop?

9. What is the purpose of the House of the Peasant?

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

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