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

2. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 95 percent.

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

4. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) June 1928.
(b) April 1932.
(c) May 1929.
(d) March 1931.

5. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Scientific Industrial Union.
(b) A Russian orthodox seminary.
(c) Historical Archives Institute.
(d) Military Collegium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?

2. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?

3. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

4. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

5. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Natasha Rapoport not emigrate to Israel?

3. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?

4. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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

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

9. What was Vremya?

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

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