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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. How did Galina Starovoytova in Moscow help Ryszard?

2. What types of illness did the people fight in Muynak?

3. What did Ryszard carry with him?

4. Where does Ryszard attend the play?

5. According to the author, how much of Central Asia was ruined by the Imperium?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened in Ufa.

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

3. What happened to the churches in Russia?

4. Describe the pros and cons of living in Yatusk.

5. Describe Magadan.

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

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

8. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

9. Why did some of the people who lived under the USSR struggle with nationality?

10. What was the Karabakh are like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the political and cultural perspective of the Armenians? Give examples of how some of their practices were similar to those of the Communist regime.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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