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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 did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Books.
(c) Speeches.
(d) Newspapers.

2. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) December 1984.
(b) March 1985.
(c) March 1986.
(d) January 1985.

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?
(a) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.
(b) Using a wagon.
(c) Using a wheelchair.
(d) Using crutches.

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

5. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Communist Youth Organization.
(b) Komsomol.
(c) Timur Society.
(d) Stalin Youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

2. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

3. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

4. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

5. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gorbachev do about the letter published March 13 in the Sovetskaya Rossiya?

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

3. How did Mukhamed Valsapar in Turkmenia stir up the Party?

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

5. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?

6. Was the corruption in the Party a secret to the Soviet people?

7. What was the Doctors' Plot?

8. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

9. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?

10. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?

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