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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Communist authorities prevent Russians from listening to news from the West?
(a) They didn't allow personal radios.
(b) They prevented large emissions tower from being put next to their borders.
(c) The radios were limited to Russians frequencies.
(d) They scrambled frequencies used by the West.

3. Where was Volodya working in September 1971?
(a) Institute of Radio and Television.
(b) Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences.
(c) Institute of Radar Telemetry.
(d) Institute of Avionic Design.

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

5. Why did Masha leave the prison after being arrested in 1978?
(a) She was released on bail.
(b) She needed to resume work.
(c) She was acqquited.
(d) She had to go to the hospital for an ulcer.

6. When did Volodya and his wife arrive at the village where he was exiled?
(a) Fourth week of September 1978.
(b) Third week of September 1978.
(c) First week of September 1978.
(d) Second week of September 1978.

7. Whose exit visa was approved in April 1979?
(a) Leonid's.
(b) Solomon's.
(c) Volodya's.
(d) Masha's.

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

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

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

11. When did Solomon die?
(a) September 15, 1978.
(b) September 2, 1978.
(c) January 21, 1979.
(d) November 2, 1978.

12. When did the weather begin to get colder in exile?
(a) Early September.
(b) Middle of September.
(c) Mid October.
(d) End of September.

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

14. When was Volodya asked to lead a laboratory in the development of the Soviet air defense system?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1964.

15. What was Volodya's shift?
(a) 18 hours work then 74 hours rest.
(b) 12 hours work then 36 hours rest.
(c) 8 hours work then 16 hours rest.
(d) 24 hours work then 48 hours rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Jewish holiday coincided with Stalin's death?

2. What did Volodya and Masha live on after her retirement?

3. How long before the search did Volodya sign a letter to the UN asking for the right to emigrate to Israel?

4. How long did Masha spend in Moscow during the first year of exile?

5. What did Leonid bring to his parents?

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