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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. When did Volodya and a group of others protest against their treatment by the Soviet Union?

2. What did Solomon offer Sanya when he visited him before leaving USSR?

3. What was Noya Drapkin husband's name?

4. When did Volodya arrive in Moscow from exile?

5. What job did Masha have in the early 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Masha?

3. What happened when Volodya worked at an international telephone station?

4. What was happening in Siberia?

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

6. What happened to Volodya's mother-in-law?

7. What were Volodya and Masha both fighting for?

8. How did Masha and Volodya survive after Masha retired in 1971?

9. What did Volodya and others request at the start of Chapter 7?

10. What happened to Masha in April 1951?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the Epilogue's discussion that even though things improved for the Jewish people, that based on history, it was not something they could trust.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how one might try to reconcile the identity of being both a Russian and a Jew.

Essay Topic 3

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

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