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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Volodya ask Potok and his wife not to do until they were inside the apartment?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Speak Hebrew.
(c) Talk.
(d) Give gifts.

2. How long did Rosa have marks on her head?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. Who was Potok's agent in 1987?
(a) Igor Stenko.
(b) Mark Standal.
(c) Joseph Marks.
(d) Owen Laster.

4. When was the Russian Empire virtually free of Jews until?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1672.

5. How was the first country created by the first settlers in Russia named?
(a) U.S.S.R.
(b) The Christian Russian Empire.
(c) The Russian kingdom.
(d) Kievan Russia.

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

7. Who saved Volodya when he almost fell down the stairs?
(a) His mother.
(b) His older brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His nanny.

8. When did Solomon leave Tass?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1938.

9. Where did the Jews of the Black Sea flee to avoid persecution?
(a) Italy.
(b) Russia.
(c) Armenia and Georgia.
(d) Israel.

10. How many of Potok's books did Masha read?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

11. What did the Poroks and Volodya's family talk about during dinner?
(a) America.
(b) Israel.
(c) Their respective family history.
(d) The Afganistan war.

12. How many delegates formed the second Congress of the Comintern?
(a) 253.
(b) 325.
(c) 217.
(d) 1256.

13. Where did Chaim Potok live when the Jews in Russia tried to obtain freedom?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Moscow.

14. Who persecuted the Jews of the Black Sea during the first century of the Common Era?
(a) The French Orthodox Church of Byzantium.
(b) The Greek Catholic Church of Byzantium.
(c) The Greek Orthodox Church of Byzantium.
(d) The Greek Orthodox Church of Moscow.

15. When did Volodya became ill, forcing his family to go back to Moscow?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Solomon when he headed for Vladivostok?

2. When were the Chinese Communists admitted in the Kuomintang?

3. What was the main agenda of the Comintern in the Summer of 1920?

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

5. When was Solomon sent to Japan?

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