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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Vaclav Havel.
(c) Dubcek.
(d) Walesa.

2. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?
(a) Using a wagon.
(b) Using a wheelchair.
(c) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.
(d) Using crutches.

3. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .
(a) December 1990.
(b) January 1991.
(c) April 1991.
(d) June 1991

4. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) Cancer Ward.
(b) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(c) First Circle.
(d) The Gulag Archipelago.

5. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.
(b) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(c) He collected empties.
(d) He was a pickpocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?

2. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

3. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

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

5. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?

(see the answer key)

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