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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) Furs.
(b) A Japanese tea set.
(c) Silk from China.
(d) Clothes from Paris.

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

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

4. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Yakov Rapoport.
(b) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(c) Grigori Baklanov.
(d) Anatoly Anayev.

5. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 16, 1985.
(b) December 5, 1987.
(c) November 2, 1987.
(d) November 4, 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?

2. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

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

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

5. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?

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

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

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

5. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

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

7. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

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

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

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