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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?
(a) Frederick William I.
(b) Ghangis Khan.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Tamerlane the Great.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1920-1932.
(b) 1840-1858.
(c) 1898-1935.
(d) 1918 to 1940.

3. Who was a self-proclaimed pioneer of Soviet capitalism who set up a private commodities brokerage?
(a) Vasiliyev.
(b) Zaslavsky.
(c) German Sterligov.
(d) Anton Danielets.

4. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(b) A replica of a prison barracks.
(c) A stone from Solovki.
(d) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.

5. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?
(a) Arbatov.
(b) Alan Chumak.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Rasputin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?

2. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?

3. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

4. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?

5. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

(see the answer key)

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