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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) 60 days.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) One year.

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

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

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

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

8. 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) Chernobyl.
(d) The release of Sakharov.

9. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.
(b) The President of the United States, George Bush.
(c) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(d) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.

10. Who was Miss KGB?
(a) Valentina Alisovna.
(b) Regina Bogachova.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Katya Mayorova.

11. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Pedro Martinez.
(b) Roger Clemens.
(c) Gary Carter.
(d) Robin Ventura.

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

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

14. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Kashpirovsky.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Nevsky.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What made Kapustin show his true feelings to Remnick?

4. Where did the czars have their prison camps?

5. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?

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