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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Execution of Party leaders.
(b) Stubornness.
(c) Violence.
(d) Intervention from the West.

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

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

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

6. Where did Men teach courses on religion?
(a) Moscow State University.
(b) A large church in Moscow.
(c) Historical Archives Institute.
(d) His local church.

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

8. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

9. How did some miners get to their work stations in Sinegorsk?
(a) Sliding and creeping along stone.
(b) Down broad stairwells.
(c) Down twisting, dangerous steps.
(d) On elevators.

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

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

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

13. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Vaclav Havel.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Dubcek.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

3. What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?

4. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?

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

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