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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?
(a) The Poles.
(b) The Czechs.
(c) The French.
(d) The Nazis.

2. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Afanasyev.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Yeltsin.

3. What was the name of the last prison for political prisoners?
(a) Kolyma.
(b) Solovetsk Special Camp.
(c) Perm-35.
(d) Magadan.

4. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) In the mines.
(b) In the KGB.
(c) In the Congress.
(d) On the collectives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

2. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

3. When did Sakharov die?

4. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?

5. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?

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