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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Oil profits.
(b) Tobacco exports.
(c) Cotton exports.
(d) Steel profits.

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

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

4. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Obolensky.
(d) Rasputin.

5. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(b) By putting alcohol in ice cream.
(c) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(d) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

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

4. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

5. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

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