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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. How does Rsyzard view Siberia?
(a) He finds it beautiful.
(b) He finds it icy and sinister.
(c) He finds it haunting.
(d) He finds it welcoming.

2. How did people of Moscow regard speech?
(a) Things were the same. They've always had freedom of speech.
(b) They lost the freedom that they originally had regarding speech.
(c) They had to be careful what they said because everything was censored.
(d) They had a freedom of speech that they didn't have previously.

3. What was Ryszard' destination?
(a) Plinsk
(b) Mangazeya
(c) Moscow
(d) St. Petersburg

4. What do they find in Zabaykal-sk?
(a) Nothing aside from an empty station
(b) Protestors
(c) Barbed wire, dangerous dogs, and sentries
(d) Welcoming crowds

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What era was that during Ryszard's last visit?

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

3. What honor did the guests have when Ryszard stayed near Frunze?

4. Where did Ryszard choose to go to see the metamorphosis?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

2. What was Ryszard's reaction to the landscape in Siberia?

3. How did Ryszard feel about the barbed wire barriers and dogs? What did they remind him of?

4. Why was the mosque in Uzbekistan so unique?

5. What effect did the war have on Ryszard's family?

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

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

8. What was the history of Moscow according to Chapter 4?

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

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

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