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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) Law.
(d) Theatre.

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

3. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?
(a) Robert Eichelberger.
(b) Thomas Davidson.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) John Scott.

4. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.
(b) For writing a book about literature.
(c) For writing a book about language.
(d) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.

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

6. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(c) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(d) They saw him shot.

7. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(b) He is told about the coup.
(c) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(d) He is told that he is being sent additional men.

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

9. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(b) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(c) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(d) To get a book published.

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

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

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

13. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?
(a) By asking reporters from Britain questions.
(b) By watching Western reporters.
(c) By talking with reporters from the U.S.
(d) By taking classes in the West.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stalin's hometown?

2. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?

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

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

5. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

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