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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?
(a) Bottled medicines made mostly of alcohol.
(b) Magnets.
(c) Herbal sachets.
(d) Copper bracelets.

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

3. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?
(a) Furs.
(b) A Japanese tea set.
(c) Silk from China.
(d) Clothes from Paris.

4. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?
(a) John Smythe.
(b) Edward Howard.
(c) David Johnson.
(d) Andrew Holmes.

5. Who was Miss KGB?
(a) Valentina Alisovna.
(b) Katya Mayorova.
(c) Regina Bogachova.
(d) Larisa Bogoraz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the television czar who stopped the television stations from broadcasting news about Lithuania?

2. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?

3. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?

4. When did Gorbachev take office?

5. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?

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