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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?
(a) The Czechs.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The Poles.
(d) The French.

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

4. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Tretetsky.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Valery Boldin.
(d) Vladimir Tokaryev.

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

6. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Buy it in Vologda.
(b) Grow it on the collective.
(c) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(d) Grow it in their garden plots.

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

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

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

10. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 35.
(d) 15.

11. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They went mad and committed suicide.
(b) They were executed themselves.
(c) They faced military tribunals.
(d) They were court martialed.

12. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?
(a) 30 years old.
(b) 25 years old.
(c) 18 years old.
(d) 11 years old.

13. 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 by the KGB to stop digging.
(c) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(d) He is told about the coup.

14. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?
(a) Water.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Steel.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

3. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

4. Where did Stalin study?

5. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

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