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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Book Review.
(b) Novy Mir.
(c) Writers' Union.
(d) Worker's World.

4. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Columbia University.

5. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?
(a) German Sterligov.
(b) Ilya Zaslavsky.
(c) Vyacheslav Shostokovsky.
(d) Anatoly Sobchak.

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

7. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?
(a) Solzhenitsyn.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Chekhov.

8. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Lenin.
(b) He attacked Stalin.
(c) He attacked Brezhnev.
(d) He attacked Khrushchev.

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

10. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) Canada.
(b) United States.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

11. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?
(a) 500 days.
(b) Generations.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 25 years.

12. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) David Kauffman.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) Bob Protexter.
(d) Richard Spooner.

13. 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 he was afraid of people's reaction if he took it down.
(d) Because there was a stain on the wallpaper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?

2. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?

3. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

4. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?

5. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?

(see the answer keys)

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