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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of illness did the people fight in Muynak?
(a) Jaundice and dysentery
(b) polio and dysentery
(c) measles and dysentery
(d) polio and jaundice

2. What was a positive aspect of the churches?
(a) They provided warmth in a poverty-stricken society.
(b) The buildings were preserved.
(c) Your soul was saved if you went into them.
(d) They were always open for confession.

3. What did the Imperium bring into Uzbekistan in the 1960s?
(a) Bulldozers
(b) Armies
(c) Water tanks
(d) Food

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

5. What type of landscape does Central Asia have?
(a) Flat
(b) Desert
(c) Mountain
(d) Valley

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

7. What did Nadiezdha Alliluyeva do in Stalin's old apartment?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) She tore it apart.
(c) She decorated it beautifully.
(d) She helped him with his political endeavors.

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

9. Where did the mafia mentality originate according to the author?
(a) From when the Romanov family was executed
(b) From the October Revolution
(c) From the fall of the USSR
(d) When the Imperium fell

10. What was happening at the meeting Ryszard attended at the Vargashovska mine?
(a) They were discussing new equipment.
(b) The workers were getting a salary raise.
(c) The workers were on strike.
(d) A meeting was called to honor miners recently killed.

11. What is the Syktyvkar airport like?
(a) It's crowded and disorganized.
(b) It's very clean and orderly.
(c) It's filled with the latest technology.
(d) It's empty.

12. What fills the Caucasus?
(a) A feeling of hope
(b) A movement to support the government
(c) Peaceful protests
(d) Blood revolts

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

14. What are the people demanding?
(a) Independence
(b) Education
(c) Increased pay
(d) Food

15. What was the irony of the churches?
(a) They made people pay to get in.
(b) They never had visitors.
(c) They were museums that attacked religion.
(d) They were the only structures in the cities to survive the violence brought on by communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the miners lived to the age of 50?

2. According to the author, what happens to a civilization that doesn't ask questions?

3. How did some people in Chapter 17 view Siberia?

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

5. What play does Rsyzard to to see?

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