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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is deportation?
(a) Moving someone to a different home in the same town
(b) Taking someone to a different shipping port
(c) Sending someone away from their native land
(d) Sending someone on vacation

2. What do they find in Zabaykal-sk?
(a) Nothing aside from an empty station
(b) Protestors
(c) Welcoming crowds
(d) Barbed wire, dangerous dogs, and sentries

3. What was the prominent religious belief portrayed in Chapter 5?
(a) Atheism
(b) Christianity
(c) Buddhism
(d) Islam

4. What does Ryszard encounter in Matenadaran?
(a) He encounters a thriving publishing community.
(b) He encounters a community where all books were destroyed.
(c) He encounters a wealth of religious texts.
(d) He encounters ancient books.

5. Why were people sent to Siberia?
(a) They were being punished.
(b) It was a land of great job opportunity.
(c) It was a great vacation escape.
(d) It was filled with cultural wonders.

6. What appears when the travelers get near Moscow?
(a) Constant sunshine
(b) Iceburgs
(c) Frozen lakes
(d) Green

7. What does Ryszard smell in the air in Baku?
(a) Smoke
(b) Oil
(c) Fish
(d) Sulfer

8. What did Moscow looked like to Ryszard when he visited during the late 1980s?
(a) Moscow was vast and uncluttered.
(b) Moscow was overrun with people and buildings.
(c) Moscow was filled with rubble and war debris.
(d) Moscow was a remnant of its former glory.

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

10. Where was Ryszard's father?
(a) He was on a business trip.
(b) He was in prison for robbing a neighbor.
(c) He was imprisoned by the Soviets.
(d) He was in the army.

11. Where did Ryszard choose to go to see the metamorphosis?
(a) Pinsk
(b) Georgia
(c) Moscow
(d) Mary

12. How does Georgia appear to Ryszard compared to Armenia?
(a) It is more focused on the arts than Armenia.
(b) It is more poverty-stricken than Armenia.
(c) It has more wealth than Armenia.
(d) It is much more violent than Armenia.

13. What towns do the travelers go through on their journey?
(a) Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Bugotak
(b) Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Chelyabinsk
(c) Omsk, Chelyabinsk, and Zarinsk
(d) Molot, Koziovo, and Ossinniki

14. Who does the intelligentsia want to make peace among?
(a) Armenia and Poland
(b) Armenia and Georgia
(c) The factions.
(d) Armenia and Moscow

15. When did Ryszard come across the Imperium for the second time?
(a) 1950
(b) 1948
(c) 1958
(d) 1945

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor did the guests have when Ryszard stayed near Frunze?

2. How does Ryszard feel about the imperium?

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

4. What was supposed to be built at the location of the Temple of Christ the Savior?

5. Where is the author heading along with his mother and sister?

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