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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 Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Novy Mir.
(b) Worker's World.
(c) Writers' Union.
(d) Book Review.

2. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?
(a) A battlefield outside Moscow.
(b) A battlefield outside Stalingrad.
(c) A battlefield outside Leningrad.
(d) A battlefield outside Berlin.

3. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?
(a) Forest Gump.
(b) The Matrix.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Schindler's List.

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

5. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(b) A stone from Solovki.
(c) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.
(d) A replica of a prison barracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?

2. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?

3. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?

4. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

5. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?

Short Essay Questions

1. After watching the film "Wall Street" at the Moscow Higher Party School, how did Remnick know that Communist ideology was dead?

2. Who was Edward Lee Howard?

3. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

4. Why did the publishers of the Novy Mir not know what to expect when Gorbachev suggested that the Soviet Writers' Union decide whether Solzhenitsyn should be published in the Soviet Union?

5. Why did Ilya Zaslavsky hobble to the podium at the Congress the day after Sakharov's death?

6. Why during World War II did Aleksandr Yakovlev survive after being wounded?

7. How did Yeltsin's appeal to the people for resistance to the coup get published in Izvestia?

8. What did Volkogonov's team reveal in a draft of a history they were writing that appalled the hard-liners?

9. What happened when Gorbachev withdrew his support for the 500 Days plan?

10. What were three omens that occurred in September 1990?

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