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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) January 1985.
(b) March 1986.
(c) March 1985.
(d) December 1984.

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

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

4. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Let History Judge.
(b) Determinist History.
(c) History of the Communist Party.
(d) Short Course.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the return of history begin?

2. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

3. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

4. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?

5. When was Gorbachev born?

(see the answer key)

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