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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What overrode the fear of the Jewish scientists meeting in secret?
(a) Their desire to emigrate.
(b) Their desire to undermine the USSR.
(c) Their friendship.
(d) Their quest for knowledge.

2. When did the government start attacking the refuseniks?
(a) March 1977.
(b) March 1979.
(c) March 1965.
(d) March 1978.

3. What were refuseniks in Soviet Russia?
(a) Dissidents who refused to join the army.
(b) People who refused to take their Communist party card.
(c) People who refused to accept the end of the USSR.
(d) Dissidents whose visas were always refused.

4. When did the Jews begin to be repressed again after Stalin's death?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1961.

5. What did Volodya tell his father that greatly upset Solomon?
(a) That he wanted to marry a non-Jewish woman.
(b) That he didn't like Stalin.
(c) That he was thinking of joining the army.
(d) That he would never join the Communist party.

6. What was the name of boat Volodya and Masha vacationed on?
(a) The Dolphin.
(b) The Fish.
(c) The Lobster.
(d) The Mermaid.

7. What did Volodya do when he arrived at his place of exile?
(a) He learned how to ice fish.
(b) He tried to escape.
(c) He found a place to live.
(d) He contacted his wife to tell her he was alive.

8. When did Masha retire?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.

9. What did Sanya learn on the radio in 1978?
(a) That his parents fled the country.
(b) That his grandfather was dead.
(c) That the USSR fell.
(d) That his parents had been arrested.

10. When did Stalin have his personal physician arrested?
(a) November 1954.
(b) November 1953.
(c) November 1952.
(d) November 1951.

11. What did Leonid bring to his parents?
(a) Exit visas.
(b) News that he was getting married.
(c) News from thir friends in prison.
(d) Warm clothing, food, and medicine.

12. When was Volodya's apartment searched according to Chapter 7?
(a) June 1973.
(b) June 1972.
(c) June 1970.
(d) June 1971.

13. When did Masha decide that she had had enough of the USSR?
(a) June 1978.
(b) June 1979.
(c) June 1977.
(d) June 1982.

14. What relationship did Solomon have with his son in the 1970s?
(a) They were tense, but cordial.
(b) He cut ties with him.
(c) They were close.
(d) They talked every other week.

15. What did Masha and Volodya decide to write on a sheet outside of their window?
(a) Let us have hot water.
(b) Let us go to Synagogue.
(c) Let us leave the USSR.
(d) Let us go to our son in Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Khrushchev's speech exposing the horrors of Stalin's rule?

2. How far from Moscow was Volodya's place of exile?

3. What did Solomon do during his retirement?

4. What job did Masha have in the early 1960s?

5. Where did Potok meet Volodya and Masha in 1995?

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