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

2. What was the legacy of collectivization?
(a) Food production increased.
(b) More than seven thousand ruined villages.
(c) Young people moved to the farms to work there.
(d) The peasants increased their standard of living.

3. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?
(a) They became alcoholics.
(b) They became soldiers.
(c) They became prisoners of the regime.
(d) They became good Russians.

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

5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(c) Steel production.
(d) Exports of wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

4. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?

5. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Was the corruption in the Party a secret to the Soviet people?

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

6. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

7. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

8. What was the Doctors' Plot?

9. What was Vremya?

10. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

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