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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Intro and Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made the conversation pick up in the apartment?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Gin.
(c) Water.
(d) Rum.

2. What did Volodya's family and the Potoks celebrate?
(a) Passover.
(b) A Bar Mitzvah.
(c) Yom Kippur.
(d) Shabbat.

3. What means of transportation did Potok and his wife take for the last leg of their trip to meet Volodya?
(a) A boat.
(b) A plane.
(c) A train.
(d) A car.

4. When did the parents of the author, Chaim Potok, see Russia as an enemy?
(a) After 1964.
(b) Before 1920.
(c) After the end of WWII.
(d) In the 1930s and after the end of WWII.

5. Why did people in Russia drive with runner lights instead of real headlights according to Volodya?
(a) For security reasons.
(b) Bulbs were in short supply.
(c) To save the battery.
(d) Street lights were abundant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the capital of the first country created by the first settlers in Russia?

2. When did the Jews who survived in Russia ask for more freedom?

3. How many Jews were in Russia by the end of the 1800s?

4. When did Potok and his wife arrive in Moscow at the start of the Prologue?

5. Who persecuted the Jews of the Black Sea during the first century of the Common Era?

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