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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many delegates formed the second Congress of the Comintern?

3. What was Solomon's wife's name?

4. When did Solomon leave Tass?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Russians view the Jews?

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

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

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

8. What happened with Slepak and Fanya's children?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationship between Solomon and Volodya and analyze Volodya's belief that his father never understood him.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Volodya's request for a visa and the reason given for their denial.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of the KGB or Russia's secret police in Volodya and Masha's life and the life of other refuseniks.

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