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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. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?

2. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?

3. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

4. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

5. How did some miners get to their work stations in Sinegorsk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Miss KGB?

7. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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 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.

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