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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They went mad and committed suicide.
(b) They were executed themselves.
(c) They faced military tribunals.
(d) They were court martialed.

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

3. What was the legacy of collectivization?
(a) Food production increased.
(b) The peasants increased their standard of living.
(c) More than seven thousand ruined villages.
(d) Young people moved to the farms to work there.

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

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

6. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1915.

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

8. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) January 1985.
(b) December 1984.
(c) March 1985.
(d) March 1986.

9. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Lenin's.
(b) Mayakovsky's.
(c) Dimitrov's.
(d) Dolguriki's.

10. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Anatoly Kapustin.
(b) Yuri Kukushkin.
(c) Nikolai Petrakov.
(d) Boris Chagin.

11. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Thirty years.

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

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

14. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?

2. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?

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

4. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

5. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?

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