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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 happened to the beautiful Pink church?

2. How old is Ryszard when he is caught by the Soviet soldiers?

3. How does Ryszard feel about the imperium?

4. What was happening to the USSR's political system?

5. How many republics did the Soviet Union have when Ryszard wanted to visit in the late 1980s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was it like living in Poland after September of 1939?

4. How is the new Armenia similar to the previous Soviet regime?

5. What did Ryszard realize about the USSR's power during his third encounter with the Imperium?

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

7. How did the author feel Siberia contrasted from Canada?

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

9. What effect did the war have on Ryszard's family?

10. What were the people of Georgia like, according to the author's observations?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Siberia and northern Canada. Explain why the author made this comparison.

Essay Topic 2

What was the role of the Imperium? how did people react to it? What eventually happened to it?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the important the freedom of thought. How did it affect the people of the USSR? How is freedom of thought important to a culture on the whole?

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