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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Borosov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Swoboda.

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

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become traders.
(b) Helped them become farmers.
(c) Committed genocide.
(d) Destroyed their culture.

4. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Vladimir Dolgikh.
(b) Oleg Falkovich.
(c) Vadim Medvedev.
(d) Dmitri Chegodayev.

5. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

2. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

3. When did Sakharov die?

4. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

5. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?

(see the answer key)

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