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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. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
2. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
4. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?
5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the dilemma that Mishal and Flora Litvinov faced with their children?
2. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?
3. Why did the salmon catch rot on Sakhalin Island?
4. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?
5. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?
6. Who is Lydia Chukovskaya?
7. Why was Genrikh Joffe accused of being a "preacher of bourgeois ideology"?
8. What was Vremya?
9. What did filmmaker Tofik Shakhverdiyev say it meant in 1988 to be a Stalinist?
10. How did Yakovlev know that the article "I Cannot Forsake Principles" was sanctioned?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the book, Remnick provides examples of times the Party attempted to block the words of various writers. At the beginning of Chapter 24 is a quote: "What is written with a pen cannot be hacked away even by an ax." Using examples from the book, argue that words can or cannot be forever destroyed by violence.
Essay Topic 2
In Boris Yeltsin's acceptance speech when he becomes president, he calls himself and the people citizens. Argue that during the reign of the Communist Party, the people of the Soviet Union may have been citizens (inhabitants), but they were not given the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Use examples from the novel to support your position.
Essay Topic 3
The poem "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova became a voice for the organization Memorial. Explain how the poem and the experiences of the poet made this poem a suitable voice and a credo for remembering the victims of the Soviet regime.
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