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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?
(a) Novikov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Yakovlev.

2. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czech Socialism.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech demonstration.
(d) Czechoslovakia Freedom.

3. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Vadim Medvedev.
(b) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(c) Oleg Falkovich.
(d) Vladimir Dolgikh.

4. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Chernenko.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Volsky.

5. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Britain.
(d) United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?

2. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

3. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

4. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

5. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

(see the answer key)

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