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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Zoya Belayeva.
(b) Anna Larina.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Nina Andreyeva.

2. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Brodsky.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Andropov.

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

4. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Bravo, Rosa.
(b) Ninotchka.
(c) Onward, Onward, Onward.
(d) Forward, Forward.

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

6. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) On the collectives.
(b) In the Congress.
(c) In the mines.
(d) In the KGB.

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

8. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?
(a) Using a wheelchair.
(b) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.
(c) Using crutches.
(d) Using a wagon.

9. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?
(a) September 15, 1950.
(b) December 16, 1954.
(c) March 18, 1952.
(d) August 12, 1953.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

2. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.

3. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

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

5. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

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