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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. Where does Ryszard attend the play?

2. How do the people in Moscow feel about the Imperium?

3. How did some people in Chapter 17 view Siberia?

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

5. What is a gulag?

Short Essay Questions

1. What where the crops in Uzbekistan like?

2. Describe Magadan.

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

4. Describe the hotel atmosphere in Yakutsk.

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

6. Describe the weather in Vorkuta.

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

8. How did the mafia arise in Russia?

9. Describe the Nationalist movement.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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