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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(b) When his apartment was broken into.
(c) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.
(d) When the KGB threatened his wife.

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

4. What was the legacy of collectivization?
(a) Food production increased.
(b) Young people moved to the farms to work there.
(c) The peasants increased their standard of living.
(d) More than seven thousand ruined villages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

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

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

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

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

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