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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 was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Party leader.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Politician.

2. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?
(a) The Baltic republics.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Magadan.
(d) Siberia.

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

4. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) Clothes from Paris.
(b) Silk from China.
(c) A Japanese tea set.
(d) Furs.

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) Stalin Youth.
(d) Timur Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

2. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Vremya?

4. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

6. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

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

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

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

10. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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