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

2. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Magadan.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The Baltic republics.

3. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(b) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(c) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(d) By putting alcohol in ice cream.

4. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(b) History of Socialism.
(c) Nina's Letter.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

5. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?
(a) The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) In the First Circle.
(c) Cancer Ward.
(d) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

2. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

3. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

4. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

5. When did the return of history begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?

2. As people learned about the true history of the Stalin era, why were they weary and bored?

3. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

4. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

5. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?

6. Why did the salmon catch rot on Sakhalin Island?

7. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?

8. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

9. What central fact of Gorbachev's early life did he keep to himself until 1990?

10. What was Vremya?

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