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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
2. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
3. When did the return of history begin?
4. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
5. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
Short Essay Questions
1. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?
2. Why did Sakharov become a dissident?
3. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?
4. What was Magadan like in the late 1930s?
5. How did Mukhamed Valsapar in Turkmenia stir up the Party?
6. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?
7. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?
8. What did filmmaker Tofik Shakhverdiyev say it meant in 1988 to be a Stalinist?
9. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?
10. What central fact of Gorbachev's early life did he keep to himself until 1990?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When people's convictions are threatened, they either capitulate or stand up and defend their convictions. Using specific examples from the book, compare individuals who abandoned their convictions when threatened to individuals who stood up to attacks on their convictions at great personal risk or cost.
Essay Topic 2
As the true history of Stalin's era is revealed in 1991, the Russian people must learn to deal with the truth and rise above it or be consumed by the truth. Explain how Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky and Vladimir Tokaryev deal with the truth and show examples that indicate that they represent the two ways that the Russian people deal with the truth.
Essay Topic 3
In writing, bias is a preconceived opinion about a subject. Whereas a slant is to interpret or present ideas based on a special interest or opinion. Argue whether David Remnick used either bias or slant when he was writing Lenin's Tomb. Use specific examples from the book to support your opinion.
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