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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He was accused of being a dissident.
(b) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(c) He was accused of espionage for the United States.
(d) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.

2. When did Shevardnadze resign as foreign minister?
(a) December 1990.
(b) January 1991.
(c) November 1990.
(d) September 1990.

3. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) World dignitaries demanded their release.
(b) Stalin's death.
(c) Gorbachov's interference.
(d) Khrushchev's disapproval.

4. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1987.
(b) January 1988.
(c) May, 1988.
(d) March 1990.

5. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Brezhnev.
(b) Chernenko.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Volsky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?

3. By the summer of 1990, how many people were quitting the Communist Party?

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

5. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

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