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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?
(a) Pravda.
(b) Sovetskaya Rossiya.
(c) Izvetia.
(d) Moscow News.

2. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?
(a) By talking with reporters from the U.S.
(b) By asking reporters from Britain questions.
(c) By taking classes in the West.
(d) By watching Western reporters.

3. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(b) For writing a book about language.
(c) For writing a book about literature.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

4. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Siberia.

5. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

4. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

5. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a difference between the czarist repressions and the Bolshevik Terror?

2. As people learned about the true history of the Stalin era, why were they weary and bored?

3. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?

4. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

5. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

6. Why did Shakhnazarov say that Gorbachev, himself, and all the others who surrounded Gorbachev were double-thinkers?

7. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

8. What was Magadan like in the late 1930s?

9. How did Yakovlev know that the article "I Cannot Forsake Principles" was sanctioned?

10. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

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