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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Television.
(b) Books.
(c) Films.
(d) Newspapers.

3. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.
(b) He collected empties.
(c) He was a pickpocket.
(d) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.

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

5. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Speeches.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

4. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

5. When did the return of history begin?

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