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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the Poroks and Volodya's family talk about during dinner?
(a) Their respective family history.
(b) The Afganistan war.
(c) America.
(d) Israel.
2. What did Solomon Slepak's father hope for his son to do?
(a) Become a rabbi.
(b) Become a physician.
(c) Become a soldier.
(d) Become a dentist.
3. Who did Solomon run into at the 1920 Comintern?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Igor Stenko.
(c) Yury Andropov.
(d) Gregory Zarkhin.
4. When did Solomon come to the United States?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1925.
5. Where was Solomon imprisoned as a political prisoner?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Volvograd.
(d) Stalingrad.
6. Why did Solomon have to change his name before going to Japan?
(a) He wife did not want to marry a Jew.
(b) It was easier to write in Japanese.
(c) He wanted a fresh start.
(d) So it didn't sound Jewish.
7. Who did Solomon return to Russia with?
(a) Igor Stravinsky.
(b) Gregory Zarkhin.
(c) Gregory Alexeyev.
(d) Markus Trenko.
8. What was the main agenda of the Comintern in the Summer of 1920?
(a) How to bolster their respective army.
(b) How to conquer the world.
(c) How to improve economy.
(d) Howe to launch a man in space.
9. How old was Solomon when he headed for Vladivostok?
(a) 32.
(b) 26.
(c) 25.
(d) 27.
10. When was Volodya born?
(a) October 12, 1927.
(b) September 29, 1927.
(c) October 29, 1928.
(d) October 29, 1927.
11. When did Solomon leave Tass?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1943.
12. Who did Volodya and his wife call every other week?
(a) Their aunt.
(b) Their son.
(c) Their daughter.
(d) Their mother in law.
13. What did the Russian government do to force Jews' assimilation into Russian society?
(a) They forbade Bar Mitzvahs.
(b) They prevented them from owning property.
(c) It closed synagogues.
(d) They forbade them from speaking Hebrew.
14. How were Solomon's children delivered in Japan?
(a) Naturally.
(b) By forceps.
(c) By C-section.
(d) Water birth.
15. Who was Potok's agent in 1987?
(a) Joseph Marks.
(b) Mark Standal.
(c) Owen Laster.
(d) Igor Stenko.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the Russian Telegraphic Agency?
2. How was the first country created by the first settlers in Russia named?
3. What did Volodya ask Potok and his wife not to do until they were inside the apartment?
4. How many countries were represented in the second Congress of the Comintern?
5. Where were Volodya's sons living at the time of Potok's visit in Russia?
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