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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) 60 days.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) One year.

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Walesa.
(c) Dubcek.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

3. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted soap.
(b) They wanted better working conditions.
(c) They wanted better hours.
(d) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.

4. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) The trend toward democracy.
(b) Young men ignoring their draft notices.
(c) Disrespect for the system.
(d) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Alex Pryor.
(b) Bob Protexter.
(c) Richard Spooner.
(d) David Kauffman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

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

4. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

5. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

(see the answer key)

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