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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?
(a) German Sterligov.
(b) Anatoly Sobchak.
(c) Ilya Zaslavsky.
(d) Vyacheslav Shostokovsky.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1918 to 1940.
(b) 1920-1932.
(c) 1898-1935.
(d) 1840-1858.

3. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Siberia.

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

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

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

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

8. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Novy Mir.
(b) Book Review.
(c) Worker's World.
(d) Writers' Union.

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

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

11. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $25,000.
(c) $1,000,000.
(d) $100,000.

12. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) India.
(b) Germany.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Poland.

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

14. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?
(a) Stationed tanks in Latvia.
(b) Slaughtered eight Lithuanian border police.
(c) Instituted martial law.
(d) Rounded up editors of dissident newspapers and imprisoned them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

2. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?

3. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?

4. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

5. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

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