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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. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Kopelev.
(c) Shalamov.
(d) Sinyavsky.

2. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told about the coup.
(b) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(c) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(d) He is told that he is being sent additional men.

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

4. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Chikin.
(b) Denisov.
(c) Andreyeva.
(d) Ligachev.

5. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?
(a) Water.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Steel.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

2. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

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

4. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

5. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mukhamed Valsapar in Turkmenia stir up the Party?

2. Why was the Communist Party doomed to failure after they lost control of history?

3. What was the Doctors' Plot?

4. Why did the salmon catch rot on Sakhalin Island?

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

6. What was Vremya?

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

8. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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

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

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