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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?
(a) Pravda.
(b) Moscow News.
(c) Izvetia.
(d) Sovetskaya Rossiya.

2. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(b) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(c) With Khruschev in 1956.
(d) With Gorbachev in 1985.

3. 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) Nina's Letter.
(c) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(d) History of Socialism.

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

5. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1986.

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

7. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Vladimir Tokaryev.
(b) Tretetsky.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Valery Boldin.

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

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

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

11. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(b) He is told that he is being sent additional men.
(c) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(d) He is told about the coup.

12. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The KGB.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) The Polish Communists.

13. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Films.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

14. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He was a pickpocket.
(b) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(c) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.
(d) He collected empties.

15. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Cotton exports.
(b) Tobacco exports.
(c) Steel profits.
(d) Oil profits.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?

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

5. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?

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