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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(b) Grow it on the collective.
(c) Grow it in their garden plots.
(d) Buy it in Vologda.

2. 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 about the coup.
(d) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.

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

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

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

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

7. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Politician.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Party leader.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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

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

11. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) A Japanese tea set.
(b) Clothes from Paris.
(c) Furs.
(d) Silk from China.

12. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?
(a) The provincial editors approved of the message.
(b) Gorbachev ordered them to run it.
(c) The provincial editors were afraid not to run it.
(d) Yakovlev ordered them to run it.

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

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

15. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?
(a) Cancer Ward.
(b) In the First Circle.
(c) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(d) The Gulag Archipelago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Gorbachev take office?

3. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?

4. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?

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

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