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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(b) With Khruschev in 1956.
(c) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(d) With Gorbachev in 1985.

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

4. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Chuvash.
(c) Crimean Tatars.
(d) Jews.

5. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Robert Eichelberger.
(c) Thomas Davidson.
(d) John Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

2. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?

3. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

4. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

5. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

(see the answer key)

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