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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. Why didn't Masha want to become a surgeon?
(a) She didn't want to work with male doctors.
(b) She couldn't spare the time because of her child.
(c) She would have to join the Communist party.
(d) She couldn't work in a non-Jewish hospital.

2. When did Stalin die?
(a) March 5, 1951.
(b) March 5, 1952.
(c) March 5, 1953.
(d) April 5, 1953.

3. Where did Volodya's mother-in-law live after leaving the USSR?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Johannesburg.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) New York.

4. How did the Communist authorities prevent Russians from listening to news from the West?
(a) The radios were limited to Russians frequencies.
(b) They prevented large emissions tower from being put next to their borders.
(c) They didn't allow personal radios.
(d) They scrambled frequencies used by the West.

5. When was Leonid Slepak born?
(a) April 1960.
(b) May 1960.
(c) April 1959.
(d) May 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Yiddish books start appearing on the Russian market?

2. Who went with Volodya on his exile?

3. What did Volodya do when he arrived at his place of exile?

4. How long was Khrushchev's speech exposing the horrors of Stalin's rule?

5. What did Solomon do during his retirement?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Volodya describe Moscow when they returned on December 4, 1982?

2. What did Masha decline in 1953?

3. What did Potok wonder when he visited Volodya in the Poconos in 1995 according to the Epilogue?

4. What increased for Jews?

5. What news did Masha received on October 13, 1987?

6. Who died on March 5, 1953 and why was this death significant?

7. What were Volodya and Masha both fighting for?

8. What long story did Masha make up?

9. What does Masha realize at the start of Chapter 5?

10. What was Volodya rejected for at the start of Chapter 4?

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