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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. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The Polish Communists.
(b) The KGB.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) Gorbachev.

2. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) Gorbachov's interference.
(b) Stalin's death.
(c) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(d) World dignitaries demanded their release.

3. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When his apartment was broken into.
(b) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(c) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(d) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.

4. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Anatoly Kapustin.
(b) Boris Chagin.
(c) Nikolai Petrakov.
(d) Yuri Kukushkin.

5. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 250.
(b) 150.
(c) 12.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

4. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?

5. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Vremya?

2. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

3. In the 1980s, why did Gorbachev say that there should be no more "rose-colored glasses"?

4. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

5. What was the Doctors' Plot?

6. Who was the most flamboyant mafia figure in the Soviet Union?

7. Why was the Communist Party doomed to failure after they lost control of history?

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

9. What central fact of Gorbachev's early life did he keep to himself until 1990?

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

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