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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. What did Rsyzard's third contact think of the rulers in the Kremlin?

2. Where does Ryszard get stuck while he is in Yakutsk?

3. What problem did Ufa face?

4. How many religious icons were destroyed between 1917 and the 1990s?

5. How did the people of Baku react to the idea of freedom of thought?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

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

3. Describe Ryszard's observation on the Nationalist.

4. Describe what happened in Ufa.

5. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

6. Describe the pros and cons of living in Yatusk.

7. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

8. What were the people in Baku like?

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

10. Describe the Red Army and what Ryszard feels about it.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Siberia and northern Canada. Explain why the author made this comparison.

Essay Topic 2

What is the political and cultural perspective of the Armenians? Give examples of how some of their practices were similar to those of the Communist regime.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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