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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) January 1985.
(b) December 1984.
(c) March 1985.
(d) March 1986.

2. 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) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(b) Nina's Letter.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) History of Socialism.

3. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Viktor Chebrikov.
(c) Yuri Vlasov.
(d) Gorbachev.

4. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(b) With Khruschev in 1956.
(c) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(d) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) India.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

2. Where did Men teach courses on religion?

3. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

5. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?

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