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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 old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 25 years old.
(c) 30 years old.
(d) 18 years old.

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

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

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

5. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) He has an American tutor.
(b) Living in the United States.
(c) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(d) Living in Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?

2. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

3. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

4. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?

5. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

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

4. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

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

6. What was Vremya?

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

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

9. As people learned about the true history of the Stalin era, why were they weary and bored?

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

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