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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Steel.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Water.

2. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 12.
(b) 250.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 150.

3. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 35.
(d) 15.

4. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(b) He has an American tutor.
(c) Living in Britain.
(d) Living in the United States.

5. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
(a) Five rooms.
(b) Four rooms.
(c) Two rooms.
(d) One room.

6. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?
(a) Yuri Vlasov.
(b) Viktor Chebrikov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Sakharov.

7. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) History.
(b) Science.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Law.

8. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) The coup was successful.
(c) Gorbachev has stepped down.
(d) They have to stop digging.

9. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Kazan.
(b) Gori.
(c) Tbilisi.
(d) Ulyanovsk.

10. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) The Balkans.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Afghanistan.

11. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Ivan Denisovich.
(b) The Wishing Tree.
(c) Repentance.
(d) Supplication.

12. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Destroyed their culture.
(b) Helped them become traders.
(c) Committed genocide.
(d) Helped them become farmers.

13. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(b) That Gorbachev had died.
(c) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(d) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.

14. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Medvedev.
(b) Gefter.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Solzhenitsyn.

15. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Short Course.
(b) Determinist History.
(c) Let History Judge.
(d) History of the Communist Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

2. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?

4. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

5. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

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