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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?
(a) The Balkans.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Siberia.

2. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Dimitrov's.
(b) Dolguriki's.
(c) Lenin's.
(d) Mayakovsky's.

3. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Grow it on the collective.
(b) Grow it in their garden plots.
(c) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(d) Buy it in Vologda.

4. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?
(a) His wife.
(b) The poem "Requiem."
(c) Mussorgsky's music.
(d) Radio background emanation.

5. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about language.
(b) For writing a book about literature.
(c) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

2. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?

4. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

5. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the revolution from below begin in July of 1989?

2. What did Gorbachev do about the letter published March 13 in the Sovetskaya Rossiya?

3. As people learned about the true history of the Stalin era, why were they weary and bored?

4. Why did no one believe that a new "epoch of human progress" began in October 1917?

5. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

6. What gnawing uncertainty is the condition of life in the Soviet Union for an empire inhabited by holocaust survivors and the children of survivors?

7. Who was the most flamboyant mafia figure in the Soviet Union?

8. How did Mukhamed Valsapar in Turkmenia stir up the Party?

9. Why was Andropov important to Gorbachev?

10. Why is Misha Litvinov a reserved person?

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