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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) Books.
(d) Newspapers.

2. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Grow it on the collective.
(b) Buy it in Vologda.
(c) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(d) Grow it in their garden plots.

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

4. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Obolensky.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the legacy of collectivization?

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