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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Potok's agent in 1987?
(a) Joseph Marks.
(b) Mark Standal.
(c) Igor Stenko.
(d) Owen Laster.

2. Why did Volodya leave his job after he decided to emigrate?
(a) He needed to leave the country.
(b) He needed a recommandation from his employer.
(c) He wanted to focus on his application.
(d) He was fired.

3. When did Stalin have his personal physician arrested?
(a) November 1953.
(b) November 1951.
(c) November 1954.
(d) November 1952.

4. Who did Solomon run into at the 1920 Comintern?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Yury Andropov.
(c) Gregory Zarkhin.
(d) Igor Stenko.

5. What was Volodya's family excited to learn?
(a) That he brought money.
(b) That their visitor was Potok.
(c) That he would write a book about them.
(d) That he had a way for them to leave Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Masha's mother claim to have lost on a train during the Civil War?

2. When did Masha and Volodya marry?

3. How long was Khrushchev's speech exposing the horrors of Stalin's rule?

4. Where did Chaim Potok live when the Jews in Russia tried to obtain freedom?

5. Why didn't Masha want to become a surgeon?

(see the answer key)

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