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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. Who did Solomon make contact with in China?
(a) Gublican.
(b) Sun Yat-sen.
(c) Yang Ze Min.
(d) Polpot.

2. Who did Volodya and his wife call every other week?
(a) Their son.
(b) Their mother in law.
(c) Their daughter.
(d) Their aunt.

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

4. When did the parents of the author, Chaim Potok, see Russia as an enemy?
(a) In the 1930s and after the end of WWII.
(b) Before 1920.
(c) After the end of WWII.
(d) After 1964.

5. How many delegates formed the second Congress of the Comintern?
(a) 253.
(b) 1256.
(c) 217.
(d) 325.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Solomon witness before being reassigned to China?

2. How many Jews were in Russia by the end of the 1800s?

3. When did Volodya became ill, forcing his family to go back to Moscow?

4. What alternative did Solomon's mother give him when he was 13?

5. When did the Jewish community thrive on the Black Sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What photographs does the author describe?

2. When did Solomon immigrate to America and what happened when he arrived?

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

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

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

6. What was signed in August 1939?

7. What happened to Jews in the Common Era?

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

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

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

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