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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 watching Western reporters.
(d) By taking classes in the West.

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

3. Where did Men teach courses on religion?
(a) A large church in Moscow.
(b) Moscow State University.
(c) Historical Archives Institute.
(d) His local church.

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

5. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) Buchenwald Monument.
(b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(c) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(d) Dachau Memorial.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

2. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?

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

4. How did some miners get to their work stations in Sinegorsk?

5. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

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