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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Volodya and his wife decide to do to try to get a visa?
(a) Try to hijack a plane.
(b) Try to flee to the US consulate.
(c) Obtain a divorce.
(d) Try to cross the border illegally.

2. What was Volodya's family concerned with?
(a) That Volodya's nephew would be sent to war.
(b) That Potok was a KGB agent.
(c) That they would go to prison for talking to Potok.
(d) That Volodya's nephew will get their exit visa.

3. When did the weather begin to get colder in exile?
(a) Mid October.
(b) Middle of September.
(c) Early September.
(d) End of September.

4. When did Solomon leave Tass?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1938.

5. What did Solomon say of the mistakes made by Stalin?
(a) That they non-existant.
(b) That they were permanent.
(c) That the party would correct them.
(d) That they were few and small.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Khrushchev deliver his speech exposing the horrors of Stalin's rule?

2. What was Volodya's family excited to learn?

3. Whose exit visa was approved in April 1979?

4. What did Volodya do when he arrived at his place of exile?

5. Where did the first conference of World Jewry take place?

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