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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Gibbon.
(c) Pope Gregory I.
(d) Socrates.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1898-1935.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1920-1932.
(d) 1840-1858.

3. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 95 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

4. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Communist Youth Organization.
(b) Komsomol.
(c) Timur Society.
(d) Stalin Youth.

5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(c) Exports of wheat.
(d) Steel production.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was a million Russian rubles worth on the open market in the late 1980s?

2. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

3. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?

4. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?

5. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?

(see the answer key)

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