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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. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?
(a) At age 10.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) At age 12.
(d) First grade.

2. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Palace of Congresses.
(b) Palace of Youth.
(c) Hall of Columns.
(d) Moscow State University.

3. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Kashpirovsky.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Nevsky.

4. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) India.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

5. In 1991, what do the miners want?
(a) The end of the system.
(b) More food.
(c) Soap.
(d) Better working conditions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

3. What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?

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

5. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was Miss KGB?

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

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

8. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?

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

10. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

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