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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many died in the camps of Kolyma between 1936 and 1953?
(a) Around three million.
(b) Nearly two million.
(c) About a million.
(d) 100,000.

2. Why did poet Varlam Shalamov spend seventeen years in a camp at Kolyma?
(a) For speaking against Stalin.
(b) For writing poetry that made fun of the military.
(c) For saying Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin was a classic author.
(d) For writing articles blasting the KGB.

3. Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania?
(a) Raimondas Sestakauskas.
(b) Aleksandr Nevzorov.
(c) Leonid Kravchenko.
(d) Boris Pugo.

4. Who was Miss KGB?
(a) Regina Bogachova.
(b) Katya Mayorova.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Valentina Alisovna.

5. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(b) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(c) Oleg Falkovich.
(d) Vadim Medvedev.

6. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?
(a) Andrei Nuikin.
(b) Yevgeny Ivanov.
(c) Grigori Vasiliyev.
(d) Nikolai Yakovlev.

7. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?
(a) Instituted martial law.
(b) Rounded up editors of dissident newspapers and imprisoned them.
(c) Stationed tanks in Latvia.
(d) Slaughtered eight Lithuanian border police.

8. Why did democratic leader Anatoly Sobchak have a picture of Lenin in his office?
(a) Because he still respected Lenin.
(b) Because Gorbachev asked him to leave it up.
(c) Because there was a stain on the wallpaper.
(d) Because he was afraid of people's reaction if he took it down.

9. Where did the czars have their prison camps?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Sakhalin Island.

10. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Nevsky.
(d) Gorbachev.

11. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?
(a) Herbal sachets.
(b) Magnets.
(c) Copper bracelets.
(d) Bottled medicines made mostly of alcohol.

12. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?
(a) At age 12.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) At age 10.
(d) First grade.

13. What made Kapustin show his true feelings to Remnick?
(a) Damage to his car.
(b) A conversation with Guly.
(c) Three vodkas.
(d) A strike by the miners.

14. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Novikov.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Yakovlev.

15. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(b) The President of the United States, George Bush.
(c) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
(d) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Shevardnadze resign as foreign minister?

2. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?

3. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?

4. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?

5. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?

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