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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?
(a) Magadan.
(b) Solovetsk Special Camp.
(c) Perm-35.
(d) Kolyma.

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 crutches.
(c) Using a wheelchair.
(d) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.

3. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?
(a) Forest Gump.
(b) Schindler's List.
(c) The Matrix.
(d) Wall Street.

4. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Brezhnev.
(b) Medvedev.
(c) Gefter.
(d) Solzhenitsyn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

2. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?

3. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

4. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

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

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