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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) June 1928.
(b) April 1932.
(c) March 1931.
(d) May 1929.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

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

5. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

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