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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) In the Congress.
(b) In the mines.
(c) In the KGB.
(d) On the collectives.

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

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

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

5. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?
(a) Speeches.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Books.
(d) Cinema.

6. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 500,000.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?

2. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?

3. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

4. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

5. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?

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