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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 is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Magadan.
(b) Kharovsk.
(c) Klyuchi.
(d) Moscow.

2. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Thirty years.

3. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Zoya Belayeva.
(b) Nina Andreyeva.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Anna Larina.

4. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Tobacco exports.
(b) Oil profits.
(c) Cotton exports.
(d) Steel profits.

5. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

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

3. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?

4. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

5. Where did Stalin study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?

4. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

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

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

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

8. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

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

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