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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) Lawyer.
(b) Politician.
(c) Propaganda man.
(d) Party leader.

2. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Yugoslavia.
(d) Siberia.

3. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
(a) Train Routes.
(b) To Moscow and Back.
(c) Moscow Circles.
(d) Around Moscow.

4. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Khruschev in 1956.
(b) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(c) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(d) With Kukushkin in 1981.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

4. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?

5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?

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

3. What was the homeless situation in Moscow in 1988?

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

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

6. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

7. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

8. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?

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

10. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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