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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 16, 1985.
(b) December 5, 1987.
(c) November 4, 1990.
(d) November 2, 1987.

2. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?
(a) Copper bracelets.
(b) Herbal sachets.
(c) Magnets.
(d) Bottled medicines made mostly of alcohol.

3. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) Stalin's death.
(b) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(c) World dignitaries demanded their release.
(d) Gorbachov's interference.

4. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1915.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

2. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

4. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?

5. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

(see the answer key)

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