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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Timur Society.
(b) Communist Youth Organization.
(c) Komsomol.
(d) Stalin Youth.

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

3. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Exports of wheat.
(b) Steel production.
(c) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(d) Tourism.

4. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Swoboda.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Borosov.

5. How was Russian Orthodox Priest Aleksandr Men murdered?
(a) Mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
(b) Shot in the back.
(c) With an axe.
(d) Pushed off a train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

3. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?

4. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?

5. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

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