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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) The Polish Communists.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The KGB.

2. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Kaganovich.
(b) Smirnov.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

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

4. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.
(b) He was a pickpocket.
(c) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(d) He collected empties.

5. 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) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Cancer Ward.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?

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

3. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

4. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

5. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?

(see the answer key)

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