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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 became president of Czechoslovakia?

2. Who was Miss KGB?

3. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?

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

5. What made Kapustin show his true feelings to Remnick?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the designer of the Chernobyl reactor say about the nuclear accident?

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

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

5. Who was Miss KGB?

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

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

8. Who was the free man Remnick met on Sakhalin island?

9. What was "The Charity Society"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 1988, threats against the Jews resurfaced. Using examples from Lenin's Tomb, discuss why there was such an anti-Semitic feeling off and on during the history of the Soviet Union and how events in the empire influenced the renewed hatred for the Jews.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Gorbachev and the Party had illusions about the future of the Soviet Union. Discuss these illusions and how events shattered Gorbachev's and the Party's illusions.

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