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

2. When did Volodya became ill, forcing his family to go back to Moscow?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1935.

3. When was Solomon Slepak born according to Chapter 1?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1883.

4. What was the capital of the first country created by the first settlers in Russia?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Volvograd.

5. Why did Lenin see an opportunity for Bolshevik expansion after WWI?
(a) The transportation system was in place for agents to move freely.
(b) Literacy was at its highest.
(c) The world's governments were weakened.
(d) The world's armies were depleted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Volodya and his wife call every other week?

2. How long did Rosa have marks on her head?

3. When was Solomon sent to Japan?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was signed in August 1939?

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

5. What photographs does the author describe?

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

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

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

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

10. How did Russians view the Jews?

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