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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(b) Anatoly Anayev.
(c) Yakov Rapoport.
(d) Grigori Baklanov.

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

3. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
(a) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Rasputin.
(c) Alan Chumak.
(d) Arbatov.

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

5. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Determinist History.
(b) Let History Judge.
(c) Short Course.
(d) History of the Communist Party.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?

3. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

4. When was Gorbachev born?

5. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

(see the answer key)

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