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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Kopelev.
(c) Kaganovich.
(d) Maksim.

2. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(b) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(c) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(d) To get a book published.

3. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?
(a) Yakovlev ordered them to run it.
(b) The provincial editors approved of the message.
(c) Gorbachev ordered them to run it.
(d) The provincial editors were afraid not to run it.

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become farmers.
(b) Committed genocide.
(c) Helped them become traders.
(d) Destroyed their culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

3. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

4. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

5. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

(see the answer key)

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