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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(b) Oleg Falkovich.
(c) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(d) Vadim Medvedev.

3. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) March 1985.
(b) December 1984.
(c) January 1985.
(d) March 1986.

4. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Smirnov.
(b) Kaganovich.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

5. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?
(a) Azerbaijan.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Lenigrad.
(d) Kazakhstan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?

2. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?

3. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?

4. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

5. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?

(see the answer key)

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