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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 much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?
(a) $1,500.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $1,000.

2. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) The release of Sakharov.
(b) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(c) Metal workers went on strike.
(d) Chernobyl.

3. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(b) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(c) He was accused of being a dissident.
(d) He was accused of espionage for the United States.

4. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Violence.
(b) Execution of Party leaders.
(c) Intervention from the West.
(d) Stubornness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?

2. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?

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

4. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?

5. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was "The Charity Society"?

7. What happened when the tanks were sent to Lithuania in January 1991?

8. In 1991, why were the Kremlin hard-liners terrified of the strikes?

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

10. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

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