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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did young Soviet reporters learn how to interview members of the political establishment?
(a) By taking classes in the West.
(b) By watching Western reporters.
(c) By asking reporters from Britain questions.
(d) By talking with reporters from the U.S.

3. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?
(a) Palace of Youth.
(b) Palace of Congresses.
(c) Hall of Columns.
(d) Moscow State University.

4. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Sakhalin Island.
(d) Kolyma.

5. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Solzhenitsyn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?

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

4. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

5. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?

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