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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. How do the people in Moscow feel about the Imperium?
(a) They violently oppose it.
(b) They want to maintain it even though it doesn't have any attachment to the people's interests.
(c) They wish it weren't around.
(d) They want to maintain it because it is an integral part of their lives.

2. What is the capital of Kolyma?
(a) Norilsk
(b) Magadan
(c) Moscow
(d) Yakutsk

3. Where does Ryszard get stuck while he is in Yakutsk?
(a) In a collapsing house
(b) In traffic on the only main road
(c) The airport
(d) On a train

4. What fills the Caucasus?
(a) Peaceful protests
(b) A feeling of hope
(c) Blood revolts
(d) A movement to support the government

5. What problem did Ufa face?
(a) Severe snowstorms
(b) Stripped mines
(c) Poisoning by phenol
(d) Unsanitary conditions

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the starving people who lined up to see Lenin now in line?

2. Everything in Baku is what?

3. When was the genocide in Karabakh that depopulated the area?

4. What happened to the port town of Muynak between 1970 and 1990?

5. Who ruled the area under Khrushchev and Brezhnev?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened to the region around the Aral Sea between 1970 and 1990.

2. What was the Karabakh are like?

3. Describe the weather in Vorkuta.

4. Describe the landscape of the republics in Central Asia.

5. What did the actor in the play say about Russia and the October Revolution?

6. What were some of the challenges Ryszard faced when he tried to fly to Nagorno-Karabkah?

7. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

8. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

9. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

10. Where did people work in Vorkuta, and what type of people worked there?

(see the answer keys)

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