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

2. What was taken out of textbooks according to Masha?
(a) Pictures of Stalin.
(b) Jewish names.
(c) American names.
(d) Foreign sounding names.

3. What job did Volodya take in the boiler room?
(a) Maintenance technician.
(b) Plan manager.
(c) Stoker.
(d) Coal hauler.

4. What did Volodya learn Solomon knew and refused to talk about later on?
(a) That his mother died in childbirth.
(b) That he was not Jewish.
(c) That Volodya's name was on a deportation list.
(d) That he wanted to remarry.

5. How long before the search did Volodya sign a letter to the UN asking for the right to emigrate to Israel?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 15 days.
(d) 10 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Volodya's mother in law receive her visa?

2. What was Solomon surrounded by during his retirement?

3. What was the first job Volodya found at the village?

4. What were some of the refuseniks accused of being?

5. Who visited Solomon in the 1970s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Masha?

2. What did Masha request?

3. What did Masha need to remind herself of when they arrived in the village in September?

4. Who visited in Masha and Volodya in February and why?

5. How much time had passed since Volodya and Masha first applied for a visa by the end of 1970's?

6. What does Masha realize at the start of Chapter 5?

7. What long story did Masha make up?

8. What did Potok wonder when he visited Volodya in the Poconos in 1995 according to the Epilogue?

9. What happened when Volodya worked at an international telephone station?

10. What was happening in Siberia?

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