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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. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Palace of Congresses.
(b) Palace of Youth.
(c) Hall of Columns.
(d) Moscow State University.

2. Where did the czars have their prison camps?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Sakhalin Island.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Siberia.

3. Where did Men teach courses on religion?
(a) His local church.
(b) Historical Archives Institute.
(c) A large church in Moscow.
(d) Moscow State University.

4. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Soccer.

5. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A replica of a prison barracks.
(b) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(c) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.
(d) A stone from Solovki.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

2. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?

3. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

4. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?

5. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would it be difficult for the hard-liners to chart a new historical orthodoxy?

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

3. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?

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

5. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

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

7. Why would the Sinegorsk mine on Sakhalin Island never be profitable in a normal economy?

8. What happened when the tanks were sent to Lithuania in January 1991?

9. Why did the publishers of the Novy Mir not know what to expect when Gorbachev suggested that the Soviet Writers' Union decide whether Solzhenitsyn should be published in the Soviet Union?

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

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