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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.
(b) Disrespect for the system.
(c) The trend toward democracy.
(d) Young men ignoring their draft notices.

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

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

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

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

7. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?
(a) Magadan.
(b) Kolyma.
(c) Solovetsk Special Camp.
(d) Perm-35.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Ryzhkov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Bakatin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?

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

3. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?

4. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?

5. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?

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