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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 Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 2, 1987.
(b) December 5, 1987.
(c) November 4, 1990.
(d) November 16, 1985.

2. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Volsky.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Chernenko.
(d) Gorbachev.

3. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(b) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(c) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(d) Had Sakharov removed from the building.

5. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(b) First Circle.
(c) Cancer Ward.
(d) The Gulag Archipelago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?

2. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

3. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.

4. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

5. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?

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