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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Thirty years.

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Nikolai Petrakov.
(b) Yuri Kukushkin.
(c) Boris Chagin.
(d) Anatoly Kapustin.

4. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Gibbon.
(d) Pope Gregory I.

5. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Klyuchi.
(b) Kharovsk.
(c) Magadan.
(d) Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

2. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

3. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?

4. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?

5. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

(see the answer key)

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