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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 type of landscape does Central Asia have?
(a) Mountain
(b) Valley
(c) Flat
(d) Desert

2. What happened to the port town of Muynak between 1970 and 1990?
(a) It became a thriving business area.
(b) It struggled to keep up with the quickly-changing international shipping standards.
(c) It became the center of commerce for the region.
(d) It became a deserted town in the middle of the desert.

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

4. Where did prisoners work in Vorkuta?
(a) Coal mines
(b) Cotton fields
(c) Oil fields
(d) Diamond mines

5. How do the people in Moscow feel about the Imperium?
(a) They wish it weren't around.
(b) They want to maintain it because it is an integral part of their lives.
(c) They violently oppose it.
(d) They want to maintain it even though it doesn't have any attachment to the people's interests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Everything in Baku is what?

2. Where were the starving people who lined up to see Lenin now in line?

3. What happened to two out of three of Ryszard's contacts?

4. What is Vorkuta known as?

5. What was it like living in Vorkuta?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did people work in Vorkuta, and what type of people worked there?

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

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

4. What was the city of Baku like?

5. Describe the Red Army and what Ryszard feels about it.

6. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

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

8. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

9. What were the people in Baku like?

10. What did the actor in the play say about Russia and the October Revolution?

(see the answer keys)

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