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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Solomon run into at the 1920 Comintern?
(a) Yury Andropov.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Igor Stenko.
(d) Gregory Zarkhin.

3. Why didn't Masha want to become a surgeon?
(a) She couldn't spare the time because of her child.
(b) She didn't want to work with male doctors.
(c) She would have to join the Communist party.
(d) She couldn't work in a non-Jewish hospital.

4. When was Solomon Slepak born according to Chapter 1?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1893.

5. What did the Soviet government repress the news of?
(a) Jewish holidays.
(b) Jewish deportation.
(c) Jews leaving the country.
(d) Jewish uprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Solomon return to Russia with?

2. What did Solomon say was preferable to have one spy go free?

3. How did the Russians view the Jews during much of the history of the country?

4. Why was Volodya rejected from numerous institutions and factories according to Chapter 4?

5. Where did the Jews of the Black Sea flee to avoid persecution?

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