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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Exports of wheat.
(b) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(c) Steel production.
(d) Tourism.

2. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When his apartment was broken into.
(b) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(c) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(d) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.

3. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?
(a) By asking reporters from Britain questions.
(b) By taking classes in the West.
(c) By talking with reporters from the U.S.
(d) By watching Western reporters.

4. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?
(a) KGB.
(b) Pamyat.
(c) Armenians.
(d) Estonians.

5. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

2. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

3. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

4. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

5. Who was Bukharian's wife?

(see the answer key)

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