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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Kashpirovsky.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Nevsky.
2. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) Two hours.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) An hour.
3. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?
(a) Slaughtered eight Lithuanian border police.
(b) Rounded up editors of dissident newspapers and imprisoned them.
(c) Stationed tanks in Latvia.
(d) Instituted martial law.
4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Richard Spooner.
(b) David Kauffman.
(c) Alex Pryor.
(d) Bob Protexter.
5. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Worker's World.
(b) Novy Mir.
(c) Writers' Union.
(d) Book Review.
6. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?
(a) Article 1.
(b) Article 12.
(c) Article 6.
(d) Article 15.
7. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(b) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(c) He was accused of being a dissident.
(d) He was accused of espionage for the United States.
8. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted soap.
(b) They wanted better hours.
(c) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.
(d) They wanted better working conditions.
9. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Kolyma.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Sakhalin Island.
10. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?
(a) Free Market Club.
(b) Entreprenuers Club.
(c) The Brokerage House.
(d) Young Millionaires Club.
11. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(b) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.
(c) A replica of a prison barracks.
(d) A stone from Solovki.
12. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) United States.
(b) Britain.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.
13. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) The trend toward democracy.
(b) Young men ignoring their draft notices.
(c) Disrespect for the system.
(d) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.
14. How many died in the camps of Kolyma between 1936 and 1953?
(a) Nearly two million.
(b) About a million.
(c) Around three million.
(d) 100,000.
15. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.
(b) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(c) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
(d) The President of the United States, George Bush.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
2. When did Shevardnadze resign as foreign minister?
3. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
4. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
5. Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania?
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