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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) The Wishing Tree.
(b) Ivan Denisovich.
(c) Supplication.
(d) Repentance.

3. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Science.
(b) Theatre.
(c) History.
(d) Law.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?

4. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

5. When did the return of history begin?

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