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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ryszard do when he returns to Moscow from Magadan?
(a) He takes a week to rest and garner his strength.
(b) Ryszard falls into many discussions, arguments, meetings and conferences.
(c) He makes plans to leave the country.
(d) He makes a list of all his new contacts.

2. Where does Ryszard get stuck while he is in Yakutsk?
(a) On a train
(b) The airport
(c) In traffic on the only main road
(d) In a collapsing house

3. What is Yakutsk known for?
(a) It's full of gold and diamonds.
(b) It's a major cultural center for music and dance.
(c) It has highly productive coal mines.
(d) It is the center of education in Russia.

4. Why does Ryszard want to visit Nagorno-Karabakh?
(a) It is a small island of Christians who are to be exterminated and replaced by Islamic fundamentalists.
(b) It's a prison camp.
(c) It's a thriving culture in a poverty-stricken nation.
(d) It is a small island of Muslims who are to be exterminated and replaced by Christian fundamentalists.

5. Where did the mafia mentality originate according to the author?
(a) When the Imperium fell
(b) From the October Revolution
(c) From the fall of the USSR
(d) From when the Romanov family was executed

6. How many religious icons were destroyed between 1917 and the 1990s?
(a) At least 20 thousand
(b) none
(c) Hundreds
(d) At least 20 million

7. What fills the Caucasus?
(a) Blood revolts
(b) Peaceful protests
(c) A feeling of hope
(d) A movement to support the government

8. What problem did Ufa face?
(a) Stripped mines
(b) Poisoning by phenol
(c) Severe snowstorms
(d) Unsanitary conditions

9. What happened as a result of the pesticides?
(a) People were poisoned and died.
(b) The local livestock died.
(c) People choked and went blind.
(d) People developed open sores.

10. All of the following were active mafia groups in the former USSR except for which:
(a) Caucasian mafia
(b) Asiatic mafia
(c) Russian mafia
(d) Nationalist mafia

11. What was planted un Uzbekistan?
(a) Corn
(b) Cacti
(c) Cotton
(d) Tobacco

12. What is Ryszard's take on the Red Army?
(a) He is happy it is gone.
(b) He thinks they should focus more on strategies.
(c) He speculates that it contains men who engage in impracticable sadism for fun.
(d) He thinks they are too lenient on the soldiers.

13. According to Ryszard, if the Russian people are united by land, can they be united by blood with the Imperium?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Yes, if they follow a certain set of criteria
(d) In extreme circumstances

14. How did Galina Starovoytova in Moscow help Ryszard?
(a) She set him up with contacts.
(b) She cooked for him.
(c) She helped him obtain a fake passport?
(d) She helped him with local transportation.

15. What happened to two out of three of Ryszard's contacts?
(a) They refused to speak to him.
(b) They were arrested.
(c) They were dead.
(d) They were delayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people in Moscow feel about the Imperium?

2. What is Ryszard's hotel like in Zalozhynaya?

3. How did the people of Baku react to the idea of freedom of thought?

4. Where were the starving people who lined up to see Lenin now in line?

5. Why couldn't Ryszard tell the story that he tells in Chapter 15 earlier in the book?

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