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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(c) He was a pickpocket.
(d) He collected empties.

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

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

4. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 16, 1985.
(b) November 4, 1990.
(c) December 5, 1987.
(d) November 2, 1987.

5. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Gori.
(b) Tbilisi.
(c) Kazan.
(d) Ulyanovsk.

6. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 95 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?
(a) KGB.
(b) Estonians.
(c) Armenians.
(d) Pamyat.

13. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?
(a) 15.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 35.

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

15. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

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

4. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?

5. When did the return of history begin?

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