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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. How many men did Solomon command against the Japanese?
(a) Close to 30,000.
(b) Close to 20,000.
(c) Close to 10,000.
(d) Close to 40,000.

2. What did the Russian government do to force Jews' assimilation into Russian society?
(a) It closed synagogues.
(b) They prevented them from owning property.
(c) They forbade them from speaking Hebrew.
(d) They forbade Bar Mitzvahs.

3. What did Volodya's family and the Potoks celebrate?
(a) A Bar Mitzvah.
(b) Passover.
(c) Shabbat.
(d) Yom Kippur.

4. How old was Volodya when he first saw a picture of Stalin?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the parents of the author, Chaim Potok, see Russia as an enemy?

2. Who first colonized the area know today as Russia according to the Intro?

3. Who persecuted the Jews of the Black Sea during the first century of the Common Era?

4. Why did people in Russia drive with runner lights instead of real headlights according to Volodya?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the Russians excited after giving a housewarming gift?

2. When was Solomon Slepak born according to Chapter 1 and what happened during his youth?

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

4. Why would someone who joined the Army not be allowed to leave the country?

5. What photographs does the author describe?

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

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

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

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

10. What does "The Gates of November" say who about two generations according to the Intro?

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