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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. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) May, 1988.
(b) March 1990.
(c) January 1987.
(d) January 1988.

2. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(b) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(c) Had Sakharov removed from the building.
(d) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.

3. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(b) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.
(c) For writing a book about language.
(d) For writing a book about literature.

4. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Kazan.
(b) Gori.
(c) Tbilisi.
(d) Ulyanovsk.

5. Where did Gorbachev grow up?
(a) Murmansk.
(b) Stavropol.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

2. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?

3. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.

4. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

5. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

8. What did filmmaker Tofik Shakhverdiyev say it meant in 1988 to be a Stalinist?

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

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

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