View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger?
(a) During the war.
(b) He cut himself with a knife.
(c) He fell on a sword.
(d) Playing with a stolen grenade.

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

5. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.
(b) A replica of a prison barracks.
(c) A stone from Solovki.
(d) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.

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

7. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Oleg Falkovich.
(b) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(c) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(d) Vadim Medvedev.

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

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

10. What book project got Volkogonov demoted to the Institute of Military History?
(a) A history of the czars.
(b) A history of World War II.
(c) A book about Khrushchev.
(d) A book about Stalin.

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

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

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

14. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?
(a) The Baltic States.
(b) Lithuania.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The United States.

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

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. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

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

4. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 424 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample