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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 25,000.

3. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?
(a) Viktor Chebrikov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Yuri Vlasov.
(d) Sakharov.

4. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(b) Living in the United States.
(c) Living in Britain.
(d) He has an American tutor.

5. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Gori.
(b) Tbilisi.
(c) Ulyanovsk.
(d) Kazan.

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

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

8. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(b) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(c) When his apartment was broken into.
(d) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.

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

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

11. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) The coup was successful.
(c) They have to stop digging.
(d) Gorbachev has stepped down.

12. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(b) Yakov Rapoport.
(c) Grigori Baklanov.
(d) Anatoly Anayev.

13. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 95 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?

2. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?

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

4. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

5. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?

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