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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 an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?
(a) Down with the Party.
(b) Independence for the Baltic States.
(c) Total Independence for Lithuania.
(d) Time for Freedom.

2. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Afanasyev.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Gorbachev.

3. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Brezhnev.
(b) He attacked Lenin.
(c) He attacked Stalin.
(d) He attacked Khrushchev.

4. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Ukraine.

5. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?
(a) A biography of Stalin.
(b) A history of the Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) A biography of Stalin.
(d) A new official history of the Soviet Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .

2. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

4. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

5. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

2. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

3. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?

4. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

5. What happened to General Matvei Shaposhnikov when he refused to fire on unarmed mine workers in Novocherkassk in 1962?

6. Why did Ilya Zaslavsky hobble to the podium at the Congress the day after Sakharov's death?

7. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?

8. After watching the film "Wall Street" at the Moscow Higher Party School, how did Remnick know that Communist ideology was dead?

9. What happened when Gorbachev withdrew his support for the 500 Days plan?

10. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.

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