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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Tbilisi.
(b) Gori.
(c) Kazan.
(d) Ulyanovsk.

2. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) United States.

3. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Crimean Tatars.
(b) Chuvash.
(c) Ukrainians.
(d) Jews.

4. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He collected empties.
(b) He was a pickpocket.
(c) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(d) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.

5. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?
(a) Shatrov.
(b) Karpinsky.
(c) Tretyakov.
(d) Karaulov.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

3. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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