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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Science.
(b) Law.
(c) History.
(d) Theatre.

2. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?
(a) November 16, 1985.
(b) November 4, 1990.
(c) November 2, 1987.
(d) December 5, 1987.

3. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Bob Protexter.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) Richard Spooner.
(d) David Kauffman.

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

5. Where did Gorbachev grow up?
(a) Stavropol.
(b) Murmansk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Irkutsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?

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

3. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

4. What Article of the Constitution did Sakharov want Gorbachev to appeal?

5. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?

(see the answer key)

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