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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?
(a) Article 15.
(b) Article 6.
(c) Article 1.
(d) Article 12.

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

3. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?
(a) Independence for the Baltic States.
(b) Time for Freedom.
(c) Down with the Party.
(d) Total Independence for Lithuania.

4. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 100,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?

2. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

3. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

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?

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

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