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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 Khruschev in 1956.
(b) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(c) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(d) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.

2. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?
(a) $1,500.
(b) $500.
(c) $3,000.
(d) $1,000.

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
(a) An old factory.
(b) Mass graves.
(c) A deserted village.
(d) A bridge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was known as the intellectual architect of perestroika?

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

3. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?

4. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

5. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?

(see the answer key)

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