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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?
(a) Moscow News.
(b) Izvetia.
(c) Pravda.
(d) Sovetskaya Rossiya.

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

6. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Scientific Industrial Union.
(b) Military Collegium.
(c) A Russian orthodox seminary.
(d) Historical Archives Institute.

7. 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.

8. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) They have to stop digging.
(c) Gorbachev has stepped down.
(d) The coup was successful.

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

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

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

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

13. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 95 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

14. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Forward, Forward.
(b) Ninotchka.
(c) Bravo, Rosa.
(d) Onward, Onward, Onward.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?

2. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

3. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

4. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

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

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