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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) Two hours.
(c) An hour.
(d) 30 minutes.

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

3. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(b) Pushed off a train.
(c) With an axe.
(d) Shot in the back.

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

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

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

7. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Lenin.
(b) He attacked Brezhnev.
(c) He attacked Stalin.
(d) He attacked Khrushchev.

8. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Alan Chumak.

9. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Borosov.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Swoboda.

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

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

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

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

14. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(b) Cancer Ward.
(c) The Gulag Archipelago.
(d) First Circle.

15. 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) Worked on a collective.
(d) Wrote books.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

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

3. Why did poet Varlam Shalamov spend seventeen years in a camp at Kolyma?

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

5. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?

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