Part One: Chapters XVI and XVII Summary

Through all the struggles, Kira has been able to lose herself in her occasional ability to attend lectures at the Institute. She has said that their hope for a future lies in their education. Then students are notified that they are to fill out questionnaires as the colleges prepare for the great purge. The official statement is that education is for those loyal to the state and that those against the state won't be educated. The main questions are centered around the employment history of the student's parents, the student's activities during the civil war, and any organizational affiliations. Kira and Leo fill out their questionnaires and each knows that they've signed "the death warrant of their futures". Andrei is there as Kira is being questioned, and he asks if she's strictly sympathetic...