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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czechoslovakia Freedom.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech demonstration.
(d) Czech Socialism.

2. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A bulldozer.
(b) A tractor.
(c) A backhoe.
(d) A tank.

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

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

5. 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) History of Socialism.
(b) Nina's Letter.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

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

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

8. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?
(a) Kaganovich.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Maksim.
(d) Kopelev.

9. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) Stalin's death.
(b) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(c) Gorbachov's interference.
(d) World dignitaries demanded their release.

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

11. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?
(a) His wife.
(b) Radio background emanation.
(c) The poem "Requiem."
(d) Mussorgsky's music.

12. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?
(a) 5 years in Siberia.
(b) 15 years in Siberia.
(c) Exile.
(d) 10 years hard labor.

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

14. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1987.
(b) May, 1988.
(c) January 1988.
(d) March 1990.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

2. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

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

4. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?

5. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?

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