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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Shalamov.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Sinyavsky.
(d) Kopelev.

2. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Moscow State University.
(b) Palace of Congresses.
(c) Palace of Youth.
(d) Hall of Columns.

3. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) Nina's Letter.
(b) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(c) History of Socialism.
(d) I Cannot Forsake Principles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

2. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

3. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?

4. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?

5. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?

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