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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(c) He was a pickpocket.
(d) He collected empties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?

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

3. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?

4. When did the return of history begin?

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

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