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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 does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(b) Buchenwald Monument.
(c) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(d) Dachau Memorial.

2. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(b) Living in the United States.
(c) Living in Britain.
(d) He has an American tutor.

3. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(c) To get a book published.
(d) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

2. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?

3. What was the legacy of collectivization?

4. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?

3. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

4. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

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

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

7. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

8. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?

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

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

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