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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 were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?
(a) That the workers would shut down the country.
(b) That the workers should receive the concessions they were requesting.
(c) That the workers were armed.
(d) That the workers were planning to storm the Kremlin.

2. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?
(a) Gibbon.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Pope Gregory I.
(d) Aristotle.

3. Why did poet Varlam Shalamov spend seventeen years in a camp at Kolyma?
(a) For writing articles blasting the KGB.
(b) For saying Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin was a classic author.
(c) For writing poetry that made fun of the military.
(d) For speaking against Stalin.

4. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Ryzhkov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Bakatin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?

2. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

3. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?

4. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?

5. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?

3. Why, for the young, was the West their dream?

4. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?

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

6. What were three omens that occurred in September 1990?

7. What was "The Charity Society"?

8. Who was the free man Remnick met on Sakhalin island?

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. Who was Miss KGB?

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