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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. What did they do before the meeting?
(a) They reviewed the notes for the meeting.
(b) They watched sports on an old television.
(c) They performed a traditional ritual.
(d) They elected a new president.

2. What does Ryszard think of the news at the meeting?
(a) He is excited for the miners.
(b) He has reservations abo0ut their decision.
(c) He thinks they are developing a good business strategy.
(d) He knows it is false.

3. What did the people who grew up under the USSR lack?
(a) Basic schooling
(b) A family history
(c) Clothing
(d) A national identity

4. What percent of the miners lived to the age of 50?
(a) 5
(b) 20
(c) 75
(d) 98

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fills the Caucasus?

2. What happened as a result of the pesticides?

3. When was the genocide in Karabakh that depopulated the area?

4. Where did prisoners work in Vorkuta?

5. What is Yakutsk known for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Magadan.

2. What were some of the challenges Ryszard faced when he tried to fly to Nagorno-Karabkah?

3. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

4. Describe what happened to the region around the Aral Sea between 1970 and 1990.

5. What was the city of Baku like?

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

7. Describe the landscape of the republics in Central Asia.

8. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

9. What is the role of the Imperium in Yakutsk?

10. Describe Ryszard's observation on the Nationalist.

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