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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When his apartment was broken into.
(b) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(c) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.
(d) When the KGB threatened his wife.

2. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Bravo, Rosa.
(b) Ninotchka.
(c) Forward, Forward.
(d) Onward, Onward, Onward.

3. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Brodsky.
(b) Andropov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Sakharov.

4. Where did Gorbachev grow up?
(a) Murmansk.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Stavropol.
(d) Irkutsk.

5. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Living in the United States.
(b) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(c) Living in Britain.
(d) He has an American tutor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

2. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

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

4. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?

5. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

(see the answer key)

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