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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) March 1986.
(b) December 1984.
(c) January 1985.
(d) March 1985.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

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

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

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

5. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?

(see the answer key)

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