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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 Gorbachev grow up?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Murmansk.
(c) Stavropol.
(d) Irkutsk.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?

(see the answer key)

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