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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 was it like living in Vorkuta?
(a) It was tough, but worth it for the benefits.
(b) People felt like it was a privilege.
(c) It was horrific.
(d) Life was easy.

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

3. What is Vorkuta known as?
(a) It's known as a holy place of martyrdom.
(b) It's known as a good place for business.
(c) It's known an ideal place to raise a family.
(d) It's known a the happiest place on Earth.

4. Where does Ryszard attend the play?
(a) In a 300-year-old theater
(b) In a museum that was turned into a church
(c) In a brand new theater
(d) In a church that was turned into a museum

5. What happened as a result of the pesticides?
(a) People developed open sores.
(b) People choked and went blind.
(c) People were poisoned and died.
(d) The local livestock died.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was it difficult getting Ryszard back to the airport?

3. What is a gulag?

4. What does Ryszard pretend to be in order to fly?

5. Why does Ryszard want to visit Nagorno-Karabakh?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was a main problem that people faced with the cotton fields?

3. What was the Karabakh are like?

4. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

5. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

6. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

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

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

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

10. Describe Magadan.

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