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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) Tobacco exports.
(b) Cotton exports.
(c) Steel profits.
(d) Oil profits.

2. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $150.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $15.
(d) $10,000.

3. 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 his apartment was broken into.
(d) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.

4. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) A Japanese tea set.
(b) Furs.
(c) Clothes from Paris.
(d) Silk from China.

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

6. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They went mad and committed suicide.
(b) They were executed themselves.
(c) They faced military tribunals.
(d) They were court martialed.

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

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

9. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Had Sakharov removed from the building.
(b) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(c) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(d) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.

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

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

12. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?
(a) By taking classes in the West.
(b) By watching Western reporters.
(c) By asking reporters from Britain questions.
(d) By talking with reporters from the U.S.

13. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Tretetsky.
(b) Valery Boldin.
(c) Vladimir Tokaryev.
(d) Gorbachev.

14. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(b) Buchenwald Monument.
(c) Dachau Memorial.
(d) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

2. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

4. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

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