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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $15.
(b) $150.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $20,000.

2. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Yuri Vlasov.
(d) Viktor Chebrikov.

3. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?
(a) KGB.
(b) Armenians.
(c) Pamyat.
(d) Estonians.

4. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?
(a) Lenigrad.
(b) Azerbaijan.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Ukraine.

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

6. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Determinist History.
(b) Short Course.
(c) History of the Communist Party.
(d) Let History Judge.

7. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Chuvash.
(c) Jews.
(d) Crimean Tatars.

8. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Fifteen years.

9. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Komsomol.
(b) Stalin Youth.
(c) Timur Society.
(d) Communist Youth Organization.

10. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) The coup was successful.
(c) They have to stop digging.
(d) Gorbachev has stepped down.

11. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
(a) Two rooms.
(b) Five rooms.
(c) One room.
(d) Four rooms.

12. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) John Scott.
(c) Thomas Davidson.
(d) Robert Eichelberger.

13. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(b) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(c) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(d) By putting alcohol in ice cream.

14. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Law.
(b) Science.
(c) Theatre.
(d) History.

15. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1987.
(b) March 1990.
(c) May, 1988.
(d) January 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?

2. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?

3. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?

4. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

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