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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Who does Ryszard travel with in Armenia?
(a) He travels with a priest.
(b) He travels with a sculptor and a composer.
(c) He travels with a travel guide.
(d) He travels with a business man and a former soldier.

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

4. What is the Armenian intelligentsia concerned about maintaining?
(a) Health standards
(b) Armenian culture
(c) Job opportunities
(d) Military stratagems

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

6. What does Ryszard see getting loaded onto the trains?
(a) Cattle
(b) Mail
(c) People
(d) Coal

7. What was unique about the mosque in Uzbekistan?
(a) It was made of iron.
(b) It was made of wood.
(c) It was filled with jewels.
(d) It was lined with gold.

8. What is so genius about the Russians according to Ryszard?
(a) They have a real knack for storytelling.
(b) They have the ability to endure almost any nightmare.
(c) They can drink better than anyone else.
(d) They really know how to cook.

9. When was Ryszard's third encounter with the Imperium?
(a) 1970
(b) 1958
(c) 1967
(d) 1950

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

11. What was the winter like in 1939-1940 in Pinsk?
(a) It felt like summer.
(b) It was tolerable.
(c) It was terrible.
(d) It was mild.

12. What honor did the guests have when Ryszard stayed near Frunze?
(a) The guests ate the brain from the boiled sheep head.
(b) The guests viewed the traditional dance.
(c) The guests ate the eyes from the boiled sheep head.
(d) The guests ate the heart from the boiled sheep head.

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

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

15. How does Ryszard feel about the imperium?
(a) He is confident that it can become a communized.
(b) He is skeptical that it can be communized.
(c) He is confident that it can be democratized.
(d) He is skeptical that it can be democratized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the difficulties Ryszard had to face when he decided to go back to visit the Imperium?

2. What did the children get after standing out all night in front of the candy store?

3. What ultimately ended out on the spot of the Temple of Christ the Savior?

4. What is Aremenian behavior similar to, according to the author?

5. What are the main religions of Azerbaijan?

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