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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 fills the Caucasus?

2. What happened to the port town of Muynak between 1970 and 1990?

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

4. What happened to two out of three of Ryszard's contacts?

5. What is the Syktyvkar airport like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the airport in Syktyvkar.

2. Describe the Red Army and what Ryszard feels about it.

3. What did Ryszard notice about the Kremlin?

4. Describe Ryszard's observation on the Nationalist.

5. What was a main problem that people faced with the cotton fields?

6. Describe the landscape of the republics in Central Asia.

7. What happened to the churches in Russia?

8. Describe what happened to the region around the Aral Sea between 1970 and 1990.

9. What were the people in Baku like?

10. Describe what happened in Ufa.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Ryszard's childhood beginning with September 1939. Addressed this political situation, and described the educational system. What were some of the difficulties the author had to contend with during 1939 in 1940?

Essay Topic 2

Detail the history of the Mafia and its role in the USSR. What were some of the pros and cons of the Mafia?

Essay Topic 3

Describe in detail the three attitudes the author states foreigners take into the Soviet Union. Determine which attitude the author had, and explain why you believe this was his attitude.

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