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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) March 1985.
(b) January 1985.
(c) December 1984.
(d) March 1986.

2. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1915.

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

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

5. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Theatre.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

4. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

5. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?

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