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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Dubcek.
(b) Walesa.
(c) Vaclav Havel.
(d) Sakharov.

2. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The KGB.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The Polish Communists.
(d) Gorbachev.

3. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?
(a) The Baltic republics.
(b) Magadan.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Siberia.

4. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?
(a) KGB.
(b) Armenians.
(c) Estonians.
(d) Pamyat.

5. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) Metal workers went on strike.
(b) The release of Sakharov.
(c) Chernobyl.
(d) Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

3. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

5. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?

(see the answer key)

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