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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, From a Bird's Eye View, 1989-1991, Chapter 6, We Look, We Cry, Chapter 7, The Man on the Asphalt Mountain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the children get after standing out all night in front of the candy store?
(a) Comic books
(b) Chocolate
(c) Penny candy
(d) Fruit-candy tins

2. When was Ryszard's third encounter with the Imperium?
(a) 1970
(b) 1950
(c) 1967
(d) 1958

3. What do they find in Zabaykal-sk?
(a) Welcoming crowds
(b) Nothing aside from an empty station
(c) Barbed wire, dangerous dogs, and sentries
(d) Protestors

4. What does Ryszard encounter in Matenadaran?
(a) He encounters ancient books.
(b) He encounters a thriving publishing community.
(c) He encounters a community where all books were destroyed.
(d) He encounters a wealth of religious texts.

5. What does the author compare Siberia to weather-wise?
(a) Antartica
(b) The mountains in China
(c) Plinsk
(d) Northern Canada

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall was the Temple of Christ the Savior?

2. What appears when the travelers get near Moscow?

3. What is Aremenian behavior similar to, according to the author?

4. What happened when the Russian patrol shows up as Ryszard travels to Georgia?

5. What, according to the author, is the European political philosophy regarding ethnocentrism?

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