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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. How did some miners get to their work stations in Sinegorsk?
(a) On elevators.
(b) Sliding and creeping along stone.
(c) Down broad stairwells.
(d) Down twisting, dangerous steps.

2. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?
(a) Ligachev.
(b) Shakarov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

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

4. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?
(a) Moscow.
(b) England.
(c) Crimea.
(d) Yugoslavia.

5. Who was a self-proclaimed pioneer of Soviet capitalism who set up a private commodities brokerage?
(a) Zaslavsky.
(b) Vasiliyev.
(c) German Sterligov.
(d) Anton Danielets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania?

3. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When did healers, mystics, and "holy fools" usually come to prominence?

2. How did Yeltsin's appeal to the people for resistance to the coup get published in Izvestia?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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