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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 children get after standing out all night in front of the candy store?
(a) Fruit-candy tins
(b) Chocolate
(c) Comic books
(d) Penny candy

2. What do the red banners signify to the travelers?
(a) They are reminders of bloodshed in the past.
(b) They are variations of the swastika flags.
(c) They are welcoming the travelers into the Soviet Union.
(d) They copy the country's flag.

3. What type of protests did Ryszard observe in the Georgians?
(a) They relied on violence
(b) They used starvation protests.
(c) They had a very Eastern form of protest with sit-ins.
(d) They didn't believe in protests.

4. What is the condition of the city in Georgia?
(a) It's struggling to survive.
(b) It's filled with wealth and beauty.
(c) It is overcrowded.
(d) It's a thriving cultural center.

5. How many republics did the Soviet Union have when Ryszard wanted to visit in the late 1980s?
(a) 12
(b) 9
(c) 8
(d) 15

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ryszard encounter in Matenadaran?

2. How did the travelers view time on the trip?

3. What is deportation?

4. How did people of Moscow regard speech?

5. What was Ryszard' destination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was school like for Ryszard?

2. Why did Ryszard decide that he wanted to go back to the imperium?

3. What were the people of Georgia like, according to the author's observations?

4. What did Ryszard learn from Leonid P during his travels to Baku?

5. What parts of the Soviet Union did Ryszard want to see?

6. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

7. What was it like living in Poland after September of 1939?

8. How is nomadism considered in Turkmenistan?

9. What are some of the concerns of the intelligencia?

10. What effect did the war have on the children?

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