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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. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Stalin.
(b) He attacked Lenin.
(c) He attacked Khrushchev.
(d) He attacked Brezhnev.
2. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(b) Pushed off a train.
(c) With an axe.
(d) Shot in the back.
3. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?
(a) England.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Crimea.
(d) Moscow.
4. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Book Review.
(b) Worker's World.
(c) Novy Mir.
(d) Writers' Union.
5. Who was Miss KGB?
(a) Valentina Alisovna.
(b) Regina Bogachova.
(c) Katya Mayorova.
(d) Larisa Bogoraz.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?
2. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
4. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?
5. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Miss KGB?
2. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?
3. How did Yeltsin's appeal to the people for resistance to the coup get published in Izvestia?
4. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.
5. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?
6. Why would it be difficult for the hard-liners to chart a new historical orthodoxy?
7. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?
8. What was "The Charity Society"?
9. What happened when the tanks were sent to Lithuania in January 1991?
10. What were three omens that occurred in September 1990?
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