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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were the Chinese Communists admitted in the Kuomintang?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1923.

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

3. What language did Volodya use to greet Potok and his wife?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) Yiddish.

4. Where was Solomon imprisoned as a political prisoner?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Sakhalin Island.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Volvograd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Solomon accept in 1920?

2. When did Voitinsky go to China?

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

4. How old was Volodya when he first saw a picture of Stalin?

5. When was Volodya born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What photographs does the author describe?

2. What happened with Slepak and Fanya's children?

3. When does the Prologue open and where was the author and his wife?

4. What option was Solomon given at the age of 13?

5. What effect did Russia have on the author's own life?

6. What did Solomon Slepak's father want for him?

7. What did Volodya discover decades after they left Peking?

8. How many Jews lived in Russia by the end of the 1800s?

9. When celebrating an impromptu Shabbat, what did the family substitute?

10. When did the Slepak family receive an exit visa and where were they headed?

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