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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) May 1929.
(b) June 1928.
(c) April 1932.
(d) March 1931.

2. Where did Gorbachev grow up?
(a) Irkutsk.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Stavropol.
(d) Murmansk.

3. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Chernenko.
(c) Volsky.
(d) Brezhnev.

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

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

6. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1986.

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

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

9. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?
(a) Yuri Vlasov.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Viktor Chebrikov.

10. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?
(a) 15 years in Siberia.
(b) Exile.
(c) 10 years hard labor.
(d) 5 years in Siberia.

11. 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) Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Supplication.

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

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

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

15. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Zoya Belayeva.
(b) Larisa Bogoraz.
(c) Anna Larina.
(d) Nina Andreyeva.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the news on August 19, 1991?

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

4. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

5. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

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