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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

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

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