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

2. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?
(a) The United States.
(b) Siberia.
(c) The Baltic States.
(d) Lithuania.

3. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?
(a) Odesa.
(b) Novyy Port.
(c) Talinn.
(d) Sakhalin Island.

4. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Borosov.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Swoboda.

5. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?
(a) Free Market Club.
(b) Entreprenuers Club.
(c) The Brokerage House.
(d) Young Millionaires Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

2. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?

3. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

4. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?

5. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

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

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

4. Who was Miss KGB?

5. What was "The Charity Society"?

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

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

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

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

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