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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) May 1929.
(b) April 1932.
(c) June 1928.
(d) March 1931.

3. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Ivan Denisovich.
(b) Supplication.
(c) Repentance.
(d) The Wishing Tree.

4. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Science.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Law.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

3. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

4. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

5. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

(see the answer key)

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