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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 was Solomon sent to Japan?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1927.

2. What was Volodya's family excited to learn?
(a) That he would write a book about them.
(b) That he brought money.
(c) That he had a way for them to leave Russia.
(d) That their visitor was Potok.

3. What was the name of the Russian Telegraphic Agency?
(a) Rosta.
(b) Vostok.
(c) Soyuz.
(d) Tass.

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

5. Who did Solomon run into at the 1920 Comintern?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Yury Andropov.
(c) Gregory Zarkhin.
(d) Igor Stenko.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Solomon leave Tass?

3. When was the area known today as Russia first colonized?

4. What made the conversation pick up in the apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Stalin decide after Germany surrendered to Russia in 1945?

2. How did Russians view the Jews?

3. Who was Owen Laster and what did he ask?

4. Who did Slepak run into in 1920 according to Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

9. When did Volodya realize he was a Jew according to Chapter 3?

10. What did Slepak ask of his visitors when they got to the apartment?

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