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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about literature.
(b) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(c) For writing a book about language.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

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?
(a) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(b) Nina's Letter.
(c) History of Socialism.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

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

4. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A bulldozer.
(b) A backhoe.
(c) A tractor.
(d) A tank.

5. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Short Course.
(b) History of the Communist Party.
(c) Let History Judge.
(d) Determinist History.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

2. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

3. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

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

5. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?

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