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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Gori.
(b) Kazan.
(c) Tbilisi.
(d) Ulyanovsk.

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) They saw him shot.
(c) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(d) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.

3. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(b) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(c) With Khruschev in 1956.
(d) With Kukushkin in 1981.

4. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Andropov.
(d) Brodsky.

5. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(b) He is told about the coup.
(c) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(d) He is told that he is being sent additional men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

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

3. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?

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

5. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

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