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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?
(a) Kaganovich.
(b) Kopelev.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Maksim.

2. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?
(a) 18 years old.
(b) 25 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 30 years old.

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

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

5. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Solzhenitsyn.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Medvedev.
(d) Gefter.

6. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Valery Boldin.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Tretetsky.
(d) Vladimir Tokaryev.

7. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Communist Youth Organization.
(b) Timur Society.
(c) Komsomol.
(d) Stalin Youth.

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

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

10. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(b) By putting alcohol in ice cream.
(c) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(d) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.

11. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(b) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(c) With Khruschev in 1956.
(d) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.

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

13. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(b) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(c) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(d) Had Sakharov removed from the building.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

4. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

5. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

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