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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) India.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

2. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?
(a) Generations.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 500 days.
(d) 5 years.

3. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Nevsky.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

4. What were the chiefs of the KGB and Interior Ministry police telling Gorbachev in 1991?
(a) That the workers should receive the concessions they were requesting.
(b) That the workers were planning to storm the Kremlin.
(c) That the workers were armed.
(d) That the workers would shut down the country.

5. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) First Circle.
(b) The Gulag Archipelago.
(c) Cancer Ward.
(d) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

6. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(b) Oleg Falkovich.
(c) Vadim Medvedev.
(d) Dmitri Chegodayev.

7. In 1991, what do the miners want?
(a) More food.
(b) Better working conditions.
(c) Soap.
(d) The end of the system.

8. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Roger Clemens.
(b) Pedro Martinez.
(c) Gary Carter.
(d) Robin Ventura.

9. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Brezhnev.
(b) He attacked Khrushchev.
(c) He attacked Lenin.
(d) He attacked Stalin.

10. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 5.

11. By the summer of 1990, how many people were quitting the Communist Party?
(a) Tens of Thousands.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Millions.
(d) Hundreds of Thousands.

12. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) An hour.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) Two hours.

13. Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania?
(a) Leonid Kravchenko.
(b) Aleksandr Nevzorov.
(c) Boris Pugo.
(d) Raimondas Sestakauskas.

14. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Hall of Columns.
(b) Moscow State University.
(c) Palace of Congresses.
(d) Palace of Youth.

15. How many died in the camps of Kolyma between 1936 and 1953?
(a) Around three million.
(b) About a million.
(c) Nearly two million.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

3. Where did Men teach courses on religion?

4. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

5. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

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