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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. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Kashpirovsky.
(c) Kaganovich.
(d) Smirnov.

2. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?
(a) The Ministry of Public Control.
(b) The Ministry of Love.
(c) The Ministry of Propaganda.
(d) The Ministry of Truth.

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

4. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(b) A stone from Solovki.
(c) A replica of a prison barracks.
(d) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.

5. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Gibbon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pope Gregory I.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger?

2. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?

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

4. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was different about the May Day parade in Moscow in 1990?

10. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

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