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

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

3. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?
(a) Herbal sachets.
(b) Bottled medicines made mostly of alcohol.
(c) Copper bracelets.
(d) Magnets.

4. When did Sakharov die?
(a) October 24, 1989.
(b) December 14, 1989.
(c) January 4, 1990.
(d) May 14, 1989.

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Alex Pryor.
(b) David Kauffman.
(c) Richard Spooner.
(d) Bob Protexter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1991, what do the miners want?

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

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

4. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

5. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Miss KGB?

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

3. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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