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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(b) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(c) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(d) With Khruschev in 1956.

2. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Living in Britain.
(b) He has an American tutor.
(c) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(d) Living in the United States.

3. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
(a) Five rooms.
(b) Four rooms.
(c) Two rooms.
(d) One room.

4. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Chernenko.
(d) Brezhnev.

5. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Khrushchev.
(b) He attacked Lenin.
(c) He attacked Brezhnev.
(d) He attacked Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?

3. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

4. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

5. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

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