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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the author heading along with his mother and sister?
(a) He is heading to the store.
(b) He is heading far away from his home.
(c) He is heading to Moscow.
(d) He is heading to his home in Pinsk, Poland.

2. Who built the Temple of Christ the Savior?
(a) Peter the Great
(b) Stalin
(c) Alexander II
(d) Alexander I

3. How has the southern republic responded to the USSR?
(a) They held on to some of their traditions.
(b) They were brainwashed and lost all sense of self.
(c) The USSR didn't affect them at all.
(d) They negotiated with the USSR for certain political positions.

4. What has Baku been known for during the past 1,000 years?
(a) Baku has been a center for the arts for 1,000 years.
(b) Baku has been a trading post for 1,000 years.
(c) Baku has been a political hot spot for 1,000 years.
(d) Baku has been a literacy center for 1,000 years.

5. Who lives in the countryside of Ashkhabad?
(a) The scholars live in the countryside.
(b) Ryszard lives in the countryside.
(c) The poor live in the countryside.
(d) The wealthy live in the countryside.

6. How did they destroy the Temple of Christ the Savior?
(a) They used dynamite.
(b) They took it down manually, piece by piece.
(c) They set it on fire.
(d) They used cannons.

7. What interrupted class time?
(a) Gunfire
(b) The class pet escaping
(c) Air raids
(d) Ryszard's fell over in his chair.

8. What did the soldiers offer Ryszard and his friends?
(a) Tobacco
(b) Food
(c) Blankets
(d) Wood for their fires

9. What does Ryszard think about nomadism?
(a) He maintains that nomads are a detriment to society.
(b) He thinks nomads are the key to world education.
(c) He maintains that human civilization can't exist without the nomad.
(d) He maintains that nomads are the key to crime in society.

10. What are the main religions of Azerbaijan?
(a) Islam and Buddhism
(b) Buddhism and Christianity
(c) Zoroastrianism and Christianity
(d) Zoroastrianism and Islam

11. Who was getting deported in Ryszard's life?
(a) His schoolmates and teachers
(b) His immediate family
(c) His neighbor
(d) No-one. The deportations are in the next town.

12. How does Ryszard act in the classroom?
(a) He never knows the answers.
(b) He is the class clown.
(c) He doesn't ask questions for fear of reprisal.
(d) He asks lots of questions to show how smart he is.

13. What did Ryszard find in Georgia?
(a) He found that the churches were obliterated.
(b) He found a prosperous community.
(c) He found ancient Christian icons, frescoes, and whitewashed remains of churches.
(d) He found people starving in the streets.

14. What was Ryszard's final stop in Chapter 3?
(a) Kyrgystan
(b) Tajikstan
(c) Mary
(d) Uzbekistan

15. How old are some of the churches Ryszard visits in Georgia?
(a) Some date back to the sixth century.
(b) Some date back to the fifteenth century.
(c) Some date back to the tenth century.
(d) All the old churches were destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ryszard discover about the Armenian political system?

2. How does Ryszard feel about the imperium?

3. When did Ryszard come across the Imperium for the second time?

4. Which geographic location was considered the threshold of Central Asia?

5. Where was Ryszard's father?

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