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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 did the people who grew up under the USSR lack?

2. How many people attended the meeting at the Vargashovska mine?

3. What was it like living in Vorkuta?

4. What seems like it will collapse like the USSR?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the challenges Ryszard faced when he tried to fly to Nagorno-Karabkah?

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

3. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

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

5. Describe the weather in Vorkuta.

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

7. Describe what happened in Ufa.

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

9. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What natural resources did the USSR have? Describe how these natural resources affected the lives of those who lived near them.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the political changes that occurred between the first encounter Ryszard had with the imperium in the second. How did these changes affect the people? How did they affect the cities and buildings?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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