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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) Disrespect for the system.
(b) The trend toward democracy.
(c) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.
(d) Young men ignoring their draft notices.

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

3. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?
(a) Economic Revival.
(b) Economic Renewal.
(c) 500 Days.
(d) People's Economy.

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

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

6. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?
(a) Perestroika.
(b) Inter-Regional Group.
(c) The Freedom Group.
(d) The New Party.

7. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Dubcek.
(c) Vaclav Havel.
(d) Walesa.

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

9. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Afanasyev.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Gorbachev.

10. 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) Instituted martial law.
(d) Stationed tanks in Latvia.

11. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cambridge University.

12. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?
(a) Victory against Nazi Germany.
(b) The history of the collectives.
(c) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) The terror of the czars.

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

14. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(b) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(c) He was accused of being a dissident.
(d) He was accused of espionage for the United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?

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

3. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?

4. Where did Men teach courses on religion?

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

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