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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. Who lives in the countryside of Ashkhabad?

3. What political studies did Ryszard have in first grade?

4. What did the soldiers offer Ryszard and his friends?

5. What does Ryszard encounter in Matenadaran?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the new Armenia like?

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

4. Why did Ryszard decide that he wanted to go back to the imperium?

5. How did Armenia contribute to world literature?

6. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

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

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

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

10. What was happening to the buildings in town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Central Asia and the changes that happened to it during the 1900s. How did the Bolsheviks change Central Asia, and what effect did the Imperium have on the area?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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