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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?
(a) Using crutches.
(b) Using a wheelchair.
(c) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.
(d) Using a wagon.

2. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?
(a) Entreprenuers Club.
(b) The Brokerage House.
(c) Free Market Club.
(d) Young Millionaires Club.

3. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Chuvash.
(c) Jews.
(d) Crimean Tatars.

4. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
(a) Moscow Circles.
(b) Around Moscow.
(c) To Moscow and Back.
(d) Train Routes.

5. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?
(a) He attacked Brezhnev.
(b) He attacked Stalin.
(c) He attacked Lenin.
(d) He attacked Khrushchev.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

4. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

5. What was the news on August 19, 1991?

(see the answer key)

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