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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose exit visa was approved in April 1979?
(a) Volodya's.
(b) Masha's.
(c) Leonid's.
(d) Solomon's.

2. What was a result of Volodya's arrest and jail time?
(a) He repudiated his father.
(b) He made friend of political dissidents.
(c) He started having contact with the foreign press.
(d) He stopped applying for a visa.

3. When did Volodya's mother in law receive her visa?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1973.

4. What prompted Volodya's firing from his job in September of 1971?
(a) A visit from the Party official.
(b) A visit from the NKVD.
(c) A visit from a political officer.
(d) A visit from the KGB.

5. Where did Potok meet Volodya and Masha in 1995?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Moscow.
(d) New York

6. How long was Volodya's exile sentence?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 8 years.

7. Who refused to make a statement about Volodya's wish to leave the Soviet Union?
(a) His employer.
(b) His mother.
(c) Solomon.
(d) His friends.

8. How old was Sanya Slepak when he got his exit visa?
(a) 25.
(b) 26.
(c) 24.
(d) 35.

9. When did Volodya's mother-in-law die?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1982.

10. What Jewish holiday coincided with Stalin's death?
(a) Yom Kippur.
(b) Purim.
(c) Shabbat.
(d) Pesach.

11. What overrode the fear of the Jewish scientists meeting in secret?
(a) Their friendship.
(b) Their desire to undermine the USSR.
(c) Their quest for knowledge.
(d) Their desire to emigrate.

12. What did Solomon offer Sanya when he visited him before leaving USSR?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) Good luck.
(d) A Communist medal.

13. What did Volodya do when he arrived at his place of exile?
(a) He found a place to live.
(b) He contacted his wife to tell her he was alive.
(c) He learned how to ice fish.
(d) He tried to escape.

14. Why didn't Masha want to become a surgeon?
(a) She didn't want to work with male doctors.
(b) She couldn't work in a non-Jewish hospital.
(c) She would have to join the Communist party.
(d) She couldn't spare the time because of her child.

15. Where did the first conference of World Jewry take place?
(a) New York.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Brussels.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Communist authorities prevent Russians from listening to news from the West?

2. When was Volodya's apartment searched according to Chapter 7?

3. What prompted Masha to decide she had had enough of the USSR?

4. How did Masha's father die?

5. How long did Volodya wait before reapplying for a visa?

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