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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ryszard traveling during the third encounter?
(a) He was heading from Moscow back to Poland.
(b) He was on an expedition across the severn southern republics of the former USSR.
(c) He was touring Siberia.
(d) He was on a cruise on the Sea of Okhotsk

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

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

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

5. What has Baku been known for during the past 1,000 years?
(a) Baku has been a political hot spot for 1,000 years.
(b) Baku has been a literacy center for 1,000 years.
(c) Baku has been a center for the arts for 1,000 years.
(d) Baku has been a trading post for 1,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the political atmosphere in Poland in 1939?

2. What do the peoples use to establish order?

3. What is the Armenian intelligentsia concerned about maintaining?

4. What does Ryszard think about nomadism?

5. How old are some of the churches Ryszard visits in Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the history of the Temple of Christ the Savior between 1812 in 1883?

2. Why was the mosque in Uzbekistan so unique?

3. What parts of the Soviet Union did Ryszard want to see?

4. How is nomadism considered in Turkmenistan?

5. What effect did the war have on the children?

6. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

7. What were the people of Georgia like, according to the author's observations?

8. What was Rsyzard's overall viewpoint on his traveling situation on the train?

9. What was unique about the women in Tajikstan, and was their uniqueness easy to come by?

10. How is the new Armenia similar to the previous Soviet regime?

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