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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?
(a) Yakovlev.
(b) Novikov.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Gorbachev.

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

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

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

7. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?
(a) Forest Gump.
(b) Schindler's List.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) The Matrix.

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

9. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Moscow.
(c) England.
(d) Crimea.

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

11. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) St. Petersburg.

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

13. 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.

14. 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 there was a stain on the wallpaper.
(c) Because he still respected Lenin.
(d) Because Gorbachev asked him to leave it up.

15. Where did the czars have their prison camps?
(a) Kolyma.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Sakhalin Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?

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

3. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

4. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

5. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?

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