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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become traders.
(b) Destroyed their culture.
(c) Helped them become farmers.
(d) Committed genocide.

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

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

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

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

6. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Kopelev.
(c) Sinyavsky.
(d) Shalamov.

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

8. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Television.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Books.
(d) Films.

9. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(b) He is told that he is being sent additional men.
(c) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(d) He is told about the coup.

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

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

12. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about language.
(b) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.
(c) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(d) For writing a book about literature.

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

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

15. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(c) To get a book published.
(d) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

4. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?

5. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

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