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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. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Irkutsk.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) St. Petersburg.

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

3. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
(a) Alan Chumak.
(b) Rasputin.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Arbatov.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?

2. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

3. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?

4. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

5. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. In 1991, why were the Kremlin hard-liners terrified of the strikes?

5. What was the Baltic strategy to achieve independence?

6. What did Sakharov try to tell Gorbachev one evening during the first Congress session?

7. Why would the Sinegorsk mine on Sakhalin Island never be profitable in a normal economy?

8. Why did Yakovlev say that rehabilitation was an act of repentance?

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

10. Describe Shcharansky's celebration of Hanukkah in Perm-35.

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