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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ryszard see getting loaded onto the trains?

2. What do the scarves the children wear have on them?

3. When the Berlin wall fall?

4. How did they destroy the Temple of Christ the Savior?

5. How does Rsyzard view Siberia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the three different attitudes foreigners had when entering the Soviet Union?

2. What did Ryszard learn from Leonid P during his travels to Baku?

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

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

5. What was happening to the buildings in town?

6. Why was the mosque in Uzbekistan so unique?

7. What did Rsyzard say about the borders in regard to ethnocentrism?

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

9. What did Ryszard discover about the government in Armenia?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the first three encounters the author has with the Imperium. Explain what was similar about each encounter as well as what was different.

Essay Topic 2

As Ryszard traveled, he noticed that the cultures were very different between cities. Select two cities that had very different cultures and compare and contrast them.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the political changes that occurred between the first encounter Ryszard had with the imperium in the second. How did these changes affect the people? How did they affect the cities and buildings?

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