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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ryszard do when he returns to Moscow from Magadan?
(a) He makes a list of all his new contacts.
(b) He makes plans to leave the country.
(c) He takes a week to rest and garner his strength.
(d) Ryszard falls into many discussions, arguments, meetings and conferences.

2. What is a gulag?
(a) A rare type of tree
(b) A special dessert
(c) A prison camp
(d) A type of train

3. How did some people in Chapter 17 view Siberia?
(a) They viewed it as a harsh, cold land
(b) They viewed it as a land ripe with opportunity
(c) They viewed it as a vast prison
(d) They viewed it as a sanctuary

4. When the author arrived in his hometown of Pinks, who did he find in church?
(a) His best from childhood
(b) Some of his parent's students, fifty years older
(c) His parents
(d) His cousins

5. Why couldn't Ryszard tell the story that he tells in Chapter 15 earlier in the book?
(a) He didn't know the ending.
(b) He needed to get permission to tell the story from the people in it.
(c) He would have endangered those who helped him.
(d) He wanted to double-check his facts.

6. What was it like living in Vorkuta?
(a) People felt like it was a privilege.
(b) It was horrific.
(c) It was tough, but worth it for the benefits.
(d) Life was easy.

7. What does Ryszard think of the news at the meeting?
(a) He has reservations abo0ut their decision.
(b) He knows it is false.
(c) He is excited for the miners.
(d) He thinks they are developing a good business strategy.

8. How did the play portray the October Revolution?
(a) As an international conspiracy against the Russian nation
(b) As a turning point in history
(c) As a time for great celebration
(d) As a mistake

9. How did Galina Starovoytova in Moscow help Ryszard?
(a) She helped him obtain a fake passport?
(b) She set him up with contacts.
(c) She helped him with local transportation.
(d) She cooked for him.

10. According to the author, how much of Central Asia was ruined by the Imperium?
(a) All of Central Asia
(b) 3/4
(c) 1/4
(d) Half

11. What did Ryszard carry with him?
(a) He carried fresh bread.
(b) He carried an important letter of introduction from Galina.
(c) He carried old Armenian chronicles,
(d) He carried the list of contacts stashed in his shoe.

12. Where were the starving people who lined up to see Lenin now in line?
(a) At housing opportunity stations
(b) Mc Donalds
(c) At the Kremlin entry
(d) Food banks

13. What happened as a result of the pesticides?
(a) The local livestock died.
(b) People developed open sores.
(c) People choked and went blind.
(d) People were poisoned and died.

14. All of the following were active mafia groups in the former USSR except for which:
(a) Russian mafia
(b) Asiatic mafia
(c) Caucasian mafia
(d) Nationalist mafia

15. What seems like it will collapse like the USSR?
(a) Democracy
(b) The Russian Federation
(c) The Republic
(d) Communism

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people in Moscow feel about the Imperium?

2. What are the people like in the hotel?

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

4. What did Ryszard like about Baku?

5. What is Vorkuta known as?

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