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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 4, 1990.
(b) December 5, 1987.
(c) November 16, 1985.
(d) November 2, 1987.

2. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Onward, Onward, Onward.
(b) Forward, Forward.
(c) Ninotchka.
(d) Bravo, Rosa.

3. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $15.
(b) $150.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $20,000.

4. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(b) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(c) That Gorbachev had died.
(d) That the State Committee had assumed power.

5. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(b) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(c) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(d) By putting alcohol in ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

2. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

4. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

5. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

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