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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Volodya find after being fired in September 1971?
(a) Delivering mail.
(b) Sharpening pencils for a workshop.
(c) Change toilet paper.
(d) Radio technician.

2. How long was Khrushchev's speech exposing the horrors of Stalin's rule?
(a) 3,000 words.
(b) 90,000 words.
(c) 20,000 words.
(d) 10,000 words.

3. When did Volodya's mother in law receive her visa?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

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

5. Where was Volodya sent to for his exile?
(a) East Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Siberia.

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

7. How long before the search did Volodya sign a letter to the UN asking for the right to emigrate to Israel?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 15 days.
(d) 10 days.

8. What did Solomon say of the mistakes made by Stalin?
(a) That they were permanent.
(b) That the party would correct them.
(c) That they were few and small.
(d) That they non-existant.

9. What was taken out of textbooks according to Masha?
(a) Jewish names.
(b) Pictures of Stalin.
(c) Foreign sounding names.
(d) American names.

10. Where did Noya Drapkin want to emigrate to?
(a) USA.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Canada.
(d) Israel.

11. Where did Volodya and the others stage their protest?
(a) The UN building.
(b) The presidium.
(c) The Kremelin.
(d) The US Embassy.

12. What did Solomon offer Sanya when he visited him before leaving USSR?
(a) Good luck.
(b) A Communist medal.
(c) A new jacket.
(d) A gold watch.

13. Who refused to make a statement about Volodya's wish to leave the Soviet Union?
(a) His friends.
(b) His employer.
(c) His mother.
(d) Solomon.

14. When did Stalin die?
(a) April 5, 1953.
(b) March 5, 1953.
(c) March 5, 1952.
(d) March 5, 1951.

15. When was Masha born?
(a) December 7, 1926.
(b) November 7, 1927.
(c) November 7, 1926.
(d) November 9, 1926.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first job Volodya found at the village?

2. When did Solomon die?

3. When did Volodya and a group of others protest against their treatment by the Soviet Union?

4. What did the Six Days War convince the Slepaks of?

5. What was Noya Drapkin husband's name?

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