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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about language.
(b) For writing a book about literature.
(c) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Mongolia.

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
(a) Mass graves.
(b) A deserted village.
(c) An old factory.
(d) A bridge.

4. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(b) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(c) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(d) Had Sakharov removed from the building.

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?
(a) They became soldiers.
(b) They became good Russians.
(c) They became prisoners of the regime.
(d) They became alcoholics.

6. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 200,000.

7. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Party leader.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Politician.

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

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

10. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?
(a) Azerbaijan.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Lenigrad.

11. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Chuvash.
(b) Jews.
(c) Crimean Tatars.
(d) Ukrainians.

12. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Andreyeva.
(b) Ligachev.
(c) Denisov.
(d) Chikin.

13. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
(a) Moscow Circles.
(b) To Moscow and Back.
(c) Train Routes.
(d) Around Moscow.

14. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?
(a) John Scott.
(b) Robert Eichelberger.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Thomas Davidson.

15. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Chernenko.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

3. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

4. Who was Bukharian's wife?

5. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?

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