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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?
(a) $3,000.
(b) $1,500.
(c) $500.
(d) $1,000.

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

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

4. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) United States.
(d) Britain.

5. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Kaganovich.
(b) Kashpirovsky.
(c) Smirnov.
(d) Rasputin.

6. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) 60 days.
(b) One year.
(c) A month.
(d) Four weeks.

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

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

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

10. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
(a) Arbatov.
(b) Alan Chumak.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Rasputin.

11. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1920-1932.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1898-1935.
(d) 1840-1858.

12. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?
(a) Sakhalin Island.
(b) Talinn.
(c) Odesa.
(d) Novyy Port.

13. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?
(a) The Ministry of Public Control.
(b) The Ministry of Truth.
(c) The Ministry of Love.
(d) The Ministry of Propaganda.

14. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted soap.
(b) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.
(c) They wanted better working conditions.
(d) They wanted better hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?

2. By the summer of 1990, how many people were quitting the Communist Party?

3. Why did poet Varlam Shalamov spend seventeen years in a camp at Kolyma?

4. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?

5. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?

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