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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

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

3. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A tractor.
(b) A backhoe.
(c) A bulldozer.
(d) A tank.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?

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

3. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

4. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

5. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

(see the answer key)

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