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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) Metal workers went on strike.
(b) Chernobyl.
(c) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) The release of Sakharov.

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

3. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?
(a) The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) In the First Circle.
(c) Cancer Ward.
(d) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

4. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Solzhenitsyn.
(d) Chekhov.

5. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(b) He was accused of espionage for the United States.
(c) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(d) He was accused of being a dissident.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the healer on the program "120 Minutes"?

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

4. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?

5. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

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