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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. What did Moscow looked like to Ryszard when he visited during the late 1980s?

3. What interrupted class time?

4. Which geographic location was considered the threshold of Central Asia?

5. What railroad was Ryszard traveling on the second time he encountered the Imperium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was happening to the buildings in town?

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

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

4. What happened to the Temple in the 20th century?

5. What parts of the Soviet Union did Ryszard want to see?

6. What was school like for Ryszard?

7. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

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

9. How is nomadism considered in Turkmenistan?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout this book, the people struggled against the suppression of the Communist regime. Explain what roles they took to fight back and whether or not they were successful.

Essay Topic 2

What led up to the collapse of the USSR? With the collapse predictable, and how did people react?

Essay Topic 3

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

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