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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Afanasyev.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Gorbachev.

3. On July 29, what power did Yeltsin want Gorbachev to give to the republics?
(a) Power to have a multi-party system.
(b) Power to elect all government officials.
(c) Power over the military.
(d) Power to levy taxes and distribute funds.

4. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?
(a) The terror of the czars.
(b) Victory against Nazi Germany.
(c) The history of the collectives.
(d) The Bolshevik Revolution.

5. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?
(a) Sokolov.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Herzen.

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

7. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(b) Chernobyl.
(c) Metal workers went on strike.
(d) The release of Sakharov.

8. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

9. When did Shevardnadze resign as foreign minister?
(a) January 1991.
(b) September 1990.
(c) November 1990.
(d) December 1990.

10. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?
(a) A history of the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) A biography of Stalin.
(c) A biography of Stalin.
(d) A new official history of the Soviet Union.

11. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted better hours.
(b) They wanted soap.
(c) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.
(d) They wanted better working conditions.

12. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?
(a) The Freedom Group.
(b) Perestroika.
(c) The New Party.
(d) Inter-Regional Group.

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

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

15. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He was accused of being a dissident.
(b) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(c) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(d) He was accused of espionage for the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?

3. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?

4. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?

5. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

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