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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
(a) An old factory.
(b) Mass graves.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A deserted village.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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 good Russians.
(d) They became soldiers.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The Poles.
(c) The French.
(d) The Czechs.

14. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?
(a) An old grandmother.
(b) A tenant evicted.
(c) Men playing dominoes.
(d) A cat thrown out of a window.

15. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Sinyavsky.
(b) Shalamov.
(c) Kopelev.
(d) Daniel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

2. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

3. Who was Bukharian's wife?

4. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?

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

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