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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. When did Shevardnadze resign as foreign minister?

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

3. How did Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger?

4. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

5. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was "The Charity Society"?

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

5. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The return of history is an important theme in the book. Explain how history was distorted and why the return of history led to a new order in Russia.

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 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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