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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Brezhnev.
(b) Borosov.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Swoboda.

2. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cambridge University.

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

4. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 95 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

5. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Arbatov.
(b) Obolensky.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

2. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

3. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

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

5. Where did Aleksandr Yakovlev almost die during World War II?

(see the answer key)

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