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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(b) By putting alcohol in ice cream.
(c) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(d) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.

3. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Crimean Tatars.
(c) Chuvash.
(d) Jews.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

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

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

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