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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ryszard site with in Azerbaijan?

2. How long did it take the travelers to move past Krasnoyarsk?

3. What do the red banners signify to the travelers?

4. What does Ryszard encounter in Matenadaran?

5. What were the passengers on the train like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

2. What were the people of Georgia like, according to the author's observations?

3. What happened to Ryszard and his mother and sister when they are traveling?

4. What was happening to the buildings in town?

5. What parts of the Soviet Union did Ryszard want to see?

6. How did Ryszard feel about the barbed wire barriers and dogs? What did they remind him of?

7. What was Rsyzard's overall viewpoint on his traveling situation on the train?

8. What was the history of Moscow according to Chapter 4?

9. What was unique about the women in Tajikstan, and was their uniqueness easy to come by?

10. What were the three different attitudes foreigners had when entering the Soviet Union?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loking toward the future, what did the Russian people feel was in store for them according to the author? Address structural changes as well as geographic and cultural changes.

Essay Topic 2

As Ryszard traveled, he noticed that the cultures were very different between cities. Select two cities that had very different cultures and compare and contrast them.

Essay Topic 3

With is the importance of religion in the USSR? What were the main religions? What were the pros and cons of each of the religions? How did the people of the different religious groups interact with each other?

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