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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 4, 1990.
(b) November 16, 1985.
(c) November 2, 1987.
(d) December 5, 1987.

2. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Medvedev.
(b) Gefter.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Solzhenitsyn.

3. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Supplication.
(b) The Wishing Tree.
(c) Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Repentance.

4. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that he is being sent additional men.
(b) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(c) He is told about the coup.
(d) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.

5. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Steel profits.
(b) Cotton exports.
(c) Tobacco exports.
(d) Oil profits.

6. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Zoya Belayeva.
(b) Anna Larina.
(c) Nina Andreyeva.
(d) Larisa Bogoraz.

7. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?
(a) They became soldiers.
(b) They became prisoners of the regime.
(c) They became alcoholics.
(d) They became good Russians.

8. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(c) To get a book published.
(d) To meet with fellow Party leaders.

9. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

10. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) In the Congress.
(b) On the collectives.
(c) In the mines.
(d) In the KGB.

11. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1990.

12. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) Stalin's death.
(b) Gorbachov's interference.
(c) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(d) World dignitaries demanded their release.

13. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 25,000.

14. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 150.
(b) 12.
(c) 250.
(d) 1,000.

15. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(b) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(c) Had Sakharov removed from the building.
(d) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?

2. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

4. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

5. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

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