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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

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

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

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