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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. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?
(a) Karaulov.
(b) Karpinsky.
(c) Shatrov.
(d) Tretyakov.

2. Where did Men teach courses on religion?
(a) A large church in Moscow.
(b) Moscow State University.
(c) His local church.
(d) Historical Archives Institute.

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

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Roger Clemens.
(b) Robin Ventura.
(c) Pedro Martinez.
(d) Gary Carter.

5. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Brezhnev.
(b) Borosov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Swoboda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?

2. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?

3. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?

4. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?

5. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the designer of the Chernobyl reactor say about the nuclear accident?

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

3. How did one of Parkomenko's investigative reports cause a terrific scandal?

4. Why would it be difficult for the hard-liners to chart a new historical orthodoxy?

5. Who was Miss KGB?

6. How did Yeltsin win his first battle inside the "horror house" of the Soviet system?

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

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

9. What did Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association, think about the Ministry of Health's cooperation with Kashpirovsky's broadcasts?

10. When did healers, mystics, and "holy fools" usually come to prominence?

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