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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Solomon and the other prisoner rise up against the guards?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1920.

2. How many Jews were in Russia by the end of the 1800s?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 0.9 million.
(d) 5 million.

3. What did Solomon witness before being reassigned to China?
(a) The final defeat of the "White" army.
(b) Stalin's rise to power.
(c) Lenin's death.
(d) The persecution of Jews by the Government.

4. Why did Lenin see an opportunity for Bolshevik expansion after WWI?
(a) Literacy was at its highest.
(b) The world's governments were weakened.
(c) The world's armies were depleted.
(d) The transportation system was in place for agents to move freely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Masha born?

2. What did the Russian government do to force Jews' assimilation into Russian society?

3. What did Volodya tell his father that greatly upset Solomon?

4. How did the Communist authorities prevent Russians from listening to news from the West?

5. What was Volodya's family concerned with?

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