Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Test | Final Test - Easy

David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was General Antonovich Volkogonov assigned to write by the hard-liners in 1990?
(a) A history of the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) A biography of Stalin.
(c) A biography of Stalin.
(d) A new official history of the Soviet Union.

3. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Violence.
(b) Execution of Party leaders.
(c) Intervention from the West.
(d) Stubornness.

4. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?
(a) Andrei Nuikin.
(b) Grigori Vasiliyev.
(c) Nikolai Yakovlev.
(d) Yevgeny Ivanov.

5. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Kolyma.

6. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?
(a) The United States.
(b) The Baltic States.
(c) Lithuania.
(d) Siberia.

7. How did Yeltsin lose a thumb and forefinger?
(a) He cut himself with a knife.
(b) He fell on a sword.
(c) During the war.
(d) Playing with a stolen grenade.

8. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(b) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.
(c) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
(d) The President of the United States, George Bush.

9. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Obolensky.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Arbatov.

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

11. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $1,000,000.
(d) $25,000.

12. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(b) Shot in the back.
(c) With an axe.
(d) Pushed off a train.

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

14. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Tolstoy.

15. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?
(a) Viktor Chebrikov.
(b) Jonas Jablonskis.
(c) Stepan Khamara.
(d) Vladimir Kryuchkov.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the czars have their prison camps?

2. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?

3. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?

4. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?

5. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?

(see the answer keys)

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