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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 do when he returns to Moscow from Magadan?

2. What is ironic about Zalozhnaya?

3. Where does Ryszard attend the play?

4. What percent of the miners lived to the age of 50?

5. What is Ryszard's hotel like in Zalozhynaya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

2. Describe the Nationalist movement.

3. What is the role of the Imperium in Yakutsk?

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

5. What happened to the churches in Russia?

6. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

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

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

9. Describe what happened to the region around the Aral Sea between 1970 and 1990.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail the three attitudes the author states foreigners take into the Soviet Union. Determine which attitude the author had, and explain why you believe this was his attitude.

Essay Topic 2

This book is rife with symbolism. Choose two symbols the author mentions, describe them in detail, and explain why the author used them as symbols.

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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