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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?
(a) $1,000,000.
(b) $25,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $10,000.

2. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Scientific Industrial Union.
(b) Historical Archives Institute.
(c) Military Collegium.
(d) A Russian orthodox seminary.

3. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?
(a) The Ministry of Love.
(b) The Ministry of Propaganda.
(c) The Ministry of Public Control.
(d) The Ministry of Truth.

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

5. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Ulyanovsk.
(b) Kazan.
(c) Tbilisi.
(d) Gori.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

2. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?

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

4. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

5. When did Gorbachev take office?

(see the answer key)

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