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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?
(a) The provincial editors approved of the message.
(b) Yakovlev ordered them to run it.
(c) Gorbachev ordered them to run it.
(d) The provincial editors were afraid not to run it.

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

6. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Short Course.
(b) History of the Communist Party.
(c) Let History Judge.
(d) Determinist History.

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

8. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) They saw him shot.
(c) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(d) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.

9. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) He has an American tutor.
(b) Living in Britain.
(c) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(d) Living in the United States.

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

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

12. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Yuri Kukushkin.
(b) Nikolai Petrakov.
(c) Boris Chagin.
(d) Anatoly Kapustin.

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

14. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Mayakovsky's.
(b) Lenin's.
(c) Dolguriki's.
(d) Dimitrov's.

15. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?
(a) Frederick William I.
(b) Ghangis Khan.
(c) Tamerlane the Great.
(d) Constantine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

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

3. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

4. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?

5. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?

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