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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 were the passengers on the train like?

2. What does Ryszard think about nomadism?

3. When did Ryszard come across the Imperium for the second time?

4. How old are some of the churches Ryszard visits in Georgia?

5. What interrupted class time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ryszard's reaction to the landscape in Siberia?

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

3. What is the new Armenia like?

4. What was unique about the women in Tajikstan, and was their uniqueness easy to come by?

5. What were the three different attitudes foreigners had when entering the Soviet Union?

6. What effect did the war have on Ryszard's family?

7. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

8. What was school like for Ryszard?

9. What is Georgia like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What natural resources did the USSR have? Describe how these natural resources affected the lives of those who lived near them.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the first three encounters the author has with the Imperium. Explain what was similar about each encounter as well as what was different.

Essay Topic 3

Loking toward the future, what did the Russian people feel was in store for them according to the author? Address structural changes as well as geographic and cultural changes.

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