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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Zalozhnaya?
(a) The people couldn't afford to attend the performances.
(b) The people lack for heat in spite of the coal mines.
(c) Most of the residents can't afford an education.
(d) The city is poverty stricken, although it's surrounded by natural riches.

2. What play does Rsyzard to to see?
(a) A Word About Russia
(b) A Doll's House
(c) The Nutcracker Suite
(d) Nijinsky

3. What is Ryszard's take on the Red Army?
(a) He is happy it is gone.
(b) He thinks they are too lenient on the soldiers.
(c) He thinks they should focus more on strategies.
(d) He speculates that it contains men who engage in impracticable sadism for fun.

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

5. What is Ryszard's hotel like in Zalozhynaya?
(a) It's a luxury resort.
(b) Its warm and friendly.
(c) It's right on the water.
(d) It's miserable and cold.

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

7. Who dominates the republic of Yakutia?
(a) The Imperium
(b) The locals
(c) The army
(d) The police

8. What were many of the agreements and disagreements over?
(a) Water
(b) Educational standards
(c) Who was going to rule
(d) Land boundaries

9. What is the capital of Kolyma?
(a) Magadan
(b) Yakutsk
(c) Norilsk
(d) Moscow

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

11. What becomes a symbol of sanctuary from oppression in Bashkir?
(a) The music
(b) Nature
(c) A flower
(d) Churches

12. When was the genocide in Karabakh that depopulated the area?
(a) 19400
(b) 1980
(c) 1920
(d) 1960

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

14. What happened to the port town of Muynak between 1970 and 1990?
(a) It became the center of commerce for the region.
(b) It became a deserted town in the middle of the desert.
(c) It became a thriving business area.
(d) It struggled to keep up with the quickly-changing international shipping standards.

15. What did Rsyzard's third contact think of the rulers in the Kremlin?
(a) She wants to decapitate them.
(b) She feels deeply indebted to them.
(c) She wants to work with them.
(d) She thinks they are trying, but need to develop a better ruling strategy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, how much of Central Asia was ruined by the Imperium?

3. Why was it difficult getting Ryszard back to the airport?

4. What happens the the homes in Yakutsk?

5. How many people attended the meeting at the Vargashovska mine?

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