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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(b) When his apartment was broken into.
(c) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.
(d) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.

2. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Obolensky.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Germany.
(c) India.
(d) Poland.

4. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Lenin.
(b) He attacked Stalin.
(c) He attacked Khrushchev.
(d) He attacked Brezhnev.

5. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) First Circle.
(c) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Cancer Ward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

2. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?

3. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

4. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

5. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

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