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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(b) Steel production.
(c) Tourism.
(d) Exports of wheat.

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

3. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) Nina's Letter.
(b) History of Socialism.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

4. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Brodsky.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Andropov.
(d) Sakharov.

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

6. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.
(b) He was a pickpocket.
(c) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(d) He collected empties.

7. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Andreyeva.
(b) Chikin.
(c) Denisov.
(d) Ligachev.

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

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

10. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Party leader.
(c) Politician.
(d) Propaganda man.

11. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

13. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The Polish Communists.
(b) The KGB.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) The Nazis.

14. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czech demonstration.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech Socialism.
(d) Czechoslovakia Freedom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

4. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

5. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

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