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

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

3. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?
(a) Kamenev.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Zinoviev.
(d) Trotsky.

4. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?
(a) People's Economy.
(b) Economic Revival.
(c) 500 Days.
(d) Economic Renewal.

5. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?
(a) 500 days.
(b) Generations.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 5 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

2. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?

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

4. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?

5. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the designer of the Chernobyl reactor say about the nuclear accident?

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

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. Why during World War II did Aleksandr Yakovlev survive after being wounded?

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

7. Who was Miss KGB?

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

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

10. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

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