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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) May 1929.
(b) June 1928.
(c) April 1932.
(d) March 1931.

2. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) December 1984.
(b) March 1986.
(c) March 1985.
(d) January 1985.

3. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?
(a) Pamyat.
(b) Armenians.
(c) KGB.
(d) Estonians.

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

5. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 2, 1987.
(b) November 16, 1985.
(c) November 4, 1990.
(d) December 5, 1987.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?

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

4. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?

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

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