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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Thirty years.

3. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 12.
(d) 150.

4. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) March 1931.
(b) May 1929.
(c) June 1928.
(d) April 1932.

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 being a dissident.
(c) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.
(d) He was accused of espionage for the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sakharov die?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

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

5. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

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