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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By putting alcohol in ice cream.
(b) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(c) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(d) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.

3. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czech demonstration.
(b) Czech Socialism.
(c) Prague Spring.
(d) Czechoslovakia Freedom.

5. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Novy Mir.
(b) Book Review.
(c) Worker's World.
(d) Writers' Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

2. Why did democratic leader Anatoly Sobchak have a picture of Lenin in his office?

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

4. When did the return of history begin?

5. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?

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