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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 10,000.

2. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To get a book published.
(b) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(c) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(d) To meet with fellow Party leaders.

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Basketball.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miss KGB?

2. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?

3. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

4. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?

5. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

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