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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. Who ruled the area under Khrushchev and Brezhnev?

2. How did Galina Starovoytova in Moscow help Ryszard?

3. What does Ryszard pretend to be in order to fly?

4. What play does Rsyzard to to see?

5. When the author arrived in his hometown of Pinks, who did he find in church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened in Ufa.

2. What was the Karabakh are like?

3. Describe the landscape of the republics in Central Asia.

4. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

5. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

6. Describe Ryszard's observation on the Nationalist.

7. Where did people work in Vorkuta, and what type of people worked there?

8. What was the city of Baku like?

9. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loking toward the future, what did the Russian people feel was in store for them according to the author? Address structural changes as well as geographic and cultural changes.

Essay Topic 2

Why were people in the USSR struggling with the concept of identity? What people groups were most affected by the concept of To identity and why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Ryszard's childhood beginning with September 1939. Addressed this political situation, and described the educational system. What were some of the difficulties the author had to contend with during 1939 in 1940?

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