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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 do the red banners signify to the travelers?

2. What does Leonid think Armenia might do?

3. What was Ryszard's final stop in Chapter 3?

4. What is the condition of the city in Georgia?

5. Where did Ryszard come across the Imperium the second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moscow in the late 1980s.

2. What was Rsyzard's overall viewpoint on his traveling situation on the train?

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

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

5. What did Ryszard discover about the government in Armenia?

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

7. What did Rsyzard say about the borders in regard to ethnocentrism?

8. How is the new Armenia similar to the previous Soviet regime?

9. How did the author feel Siberia contrasted from Canada?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Even though the USSR had power over the southern republics, they still managed to hold onto some of their traditions. Describe some of the traditions and explain why it was important for the people to hold onto them.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Central Asia and the changes that happened to it during the 1900s. How did the Bolsheviks change Central Asia, and what effect did the Imperium have on the area?

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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