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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?
(a) That the workers should receive the concessions they were requesting.
(b) That the workers were planning to storm the Kremlin.
(c) That the workers were armed.
(d) That the workers would shut down the country.

2. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Kolyma.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Ukraine.

3. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?
(a) Karpinsky.
(b) Tretyakov.
(c) Karaulov.
(d) Shatrov.

4. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?
(a) Down with the Party.
(b) Total Independence for Lithuania.
(c) Independence for the Baltic States.
(d) Time for Freedom.

5. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Borosov.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Swoboda.

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

7. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Novyy Port.
(c) Talinn.
(d) Odesa.

8. When did Sakharov die?
(a) October 24, 1989.
(b) December 14, 1989.
(c) January 4, 1990.
(d) May 14, 1989.

9. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) Young men ignoring their draft notices.
(b) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.
(c) Disrespect for the system.
(d) The trend toward democracy.

10. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?
(a) $500.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $1,500.

11. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) Pushed off a train.
(b) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(c) With an axe.
(d) Shot in the back.

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

13. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .
(a) April 1991.
(b) January 1991.
(c) June 1991
(d) December 1990.

14. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Obolensky.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

15. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?
(a) Wrote books.
(b) Worked on a collective.
(c) Became an auto mechanic.
(d) Restored old Russian furniture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?

2. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?

3. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?

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

5. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?

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