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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1840-1858.
(b) 1898-1935.
(c) 1920-1932.
(d) 1918 to 1940.

2. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He was accused of espionage for the United States.
(b) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(c) He was accused of being a dissident.
(d) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) India.
(d) Pakistan.

4. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Dubcek.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Walesa.

5. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Nina Andreyeva.
(b) Anna Larina.
(c) Zoya Belayeva.
(d) Larisa Bogoraz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the return of history begin?

2. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

3. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?

4. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

5. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

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