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

2. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?

3. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

4. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?

5. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

4. Why would it be difficult for the hard-liners to chart a new historical orthodoxy?

5. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?

6. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

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

8. What happened when Gorbachev withdrew his support for the 500 Days plan?

9. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the double meaning of the book's title, Lenin's Tomb.

Essay Topic 2

Some have said that the under socialism in the Soviet Union everyone was equal, equally poor. Argue that socialism caused the extreme poverty that the Soviet People endured using specific examples from the book to support your opinions.

Essay Topic 3

In the Soviet Union a common power struggle involved truth and the Party's version of truth. Using examples from Lenin's Tomb, explain why man's struggle against power is also the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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