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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. According to Shalamov, what is the West built on?
(a) Industry
(b) Creative invention
(c) The army
(d) Ruthless subordination

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

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

4. What did Fiodorov believe was the most important idea in Christianity?
(a) Peace
(b) Love
(c) Joy
(d) Resurrection

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ryszard's take on the Red Army?

2. What did Ryszard like about Baku?

3. According to Ryszard, if the Russian people are united by land, can they be united by blood with the Imperium?

4. What seems like it will collapse like the USSR?

5. When the author arrived in his hometown of Pinks, who did he find in church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the churches in Russia?

2. What was the Karabakh are like?

3. Why did some of the people who lived under the USSR struggle with nationality?

4. Describe the pros and cons of living in Yatusk.

5. Describe Ryszard's observation on the Nationalist.

6. Describe the feelings the elite in Moscow had for the Imperium.

7. Describe the airport in Syktyvkar.

8. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

9. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

10. Describe the Kremlin.

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