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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) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Nevsky.

2. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Shakarov.
(c) Ligachev.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

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

4. 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) Slaughtered eight Lithuanian border police.
(c) Instituted martial law.
(d) Stationed tanks in Latvia.

5. 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 levy taxes and distribute funds.
(c) Power to elect all government officials.
(d) Power over the military.

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

7. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Palace of Congresses.
(b) Palace of Youth.
(c) Hall of Columns.
(d) Moscow State University.

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

9. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?
(a) Article 12.
(b) Article 6.
(c) Article 15.
(d) Article 1.

10. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Smirnov.
(b) Kaganovich.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

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

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

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

14. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?
(a) Jonas Jablonskis.
(b) Viktor Chebrikov.
(c) Stepan Khamara.
(d) Vladimir Kryuchkov.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?

2. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?

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

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

5. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?

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