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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. What was the legacy of collectivization?
(a) Young people moved to the farms to work there.
(b) More than seven thousand ruined villages.
(c) The peasants increased their standard of living.
(d) Food production increased.

2. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?
(a) Moscow News.
(b) Sovetskaya Rossiya.
(c) Pravda.
(d) Izvetia.

3. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Books.
(c) Television.
(d) Films.

4. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) Furs.
(b) A Japanese tea set.
(c) Silk from China.
(d) Clothes from Paris.

5. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A backhoe.
(b) A bulldozer.
(c) A tank.
(d) A tractor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

2. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

3. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

4. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

5. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stalin gain absolute control over history?

2. How did Yakovlev know that the article "I Cannot Forsake Principles" was sanctioned?

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

4. What was the Doctors' Plot?

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

6. What happened in the 1940s in the woods outside Kalinin?

7. What was a difference between the czarist repressions and the Bolshevik Terror?

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

9. Why is life in the mines not fit for human beings?

10. In the 1980s, why did Gorbachev say that there should be no more "rose-colored glasses"?

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