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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 did Volodya's family keep looking at after dinner?
(a) The window.
(b) The TV.
(c) The clock.
(d) The door.

2. What was the capital of the first country created by the first settlers in Russia?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Volvograd.

3. Who did Volodya and his wife call every other week?
(a) Their aunt.
(b) Their daughter.
(c) Their son.
(d) Their mother in law.

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

5. What was Volodya's family concerned with?
(a) That Volodya's nephew would be sent to war.
(b) That they would go to prison for talking to Potok.
(c) That Potok was a KGB agent.
(d) That Volodya's nephew will get their exit visa.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Jewish community of Poland establish itself?

2. When did the Slepak family finally get their visa out of Russia?

3. Who was in the apartment Volodya brought Potok and his wife to?

4. How was the first country created by the first settlers in Russia named?

5. What made the conversation pick up in the apartment?

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