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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who persecuted the Jews of the Black Sea during the first century of the Common Era?
(a) The Greek Orthodox Church of Moscow.
(b) The French Orthodox Church of Byzantium.
(c) The Greek Catholic Church of Byzantium.
(d) The Greek Orthodox Church of Byzantium.

2. Where was Solomon imprisoned as a political prisoner?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Volvograd.

3. What job did Solomon accept in 1920?
(a) Director of the Press Department in Moscow.
(b) Writer for the Press Department in Moscow.
(c) Head of the Press Department in Moscow.
(d) Deputy Head of the Press Department in Moscow.

4. What did the Russian government do to force Jews' assimilation into Russian society?
(a) They prevented them from owning property.
(b) They forbade them from speaking Hebrew.
(c) They forbade Bar Mitzvahs.
(d) It closed synagogues.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lenin see an opportunity for Bolshevik expansion after WWI?

2. Who did Solomon return to Russia with?

3. Why was Solomon's education request rejected?

4. Who did Solomon run into at the 1920 Comintern?

5. What did Solomon witness before being reassigned to China?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Russians view the Jews?

2. When was Solomon Slepak born according to Chapter 1 and what happened during his youth?

3. When did Volodya realize he was a Jew according to Chapter 3?

4. When did Solomon immigrate to America and what happened when he arrived?

5. What happened to Jews in the Common Era?

6. What did Slepak ask of his visitors when they got to the apartment?

7. What did Stalin decide after Germany surrendered to Russia in 1945?

8. Who did Slepak run into in 1920 according to Chapter 2?

9. What was Solomon invited to do?

10. When celebrating an impromptu Shabbat, what did the family substitute?

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