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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 Gorbachev take office?
(a) March 1985.
(b) March 1986.
(c) January 1985.
(d) December 1984.

2. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Let History Judge.
(b) History of the Communist Party.
(c) Determinist History.
(d) Short Course.

3. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?
(a) A tenant evicted.
(b) Men playing dominoes.
(c) A cat thrown out of a window.
(d) An old grandmother.

4. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
(a) Around Moscow.
(b) Moscow Circles.
(c) Train Routes.
(d) To Moscow and Back.

5. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Films.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?

2. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

4. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

5. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

3. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

4. What was Vremya?

5. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

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

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

8. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?

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

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

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