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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(b) That Gorbachev had died.
(c) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(d) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.

2. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Short Course.
(b) Determinist History.
(c) Let History Judge.
(d) History of the Communist Party.

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) 60 days.
(c) One year.
(d) Four weeks.

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

5. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Moscow.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Leningrad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?

2. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

5. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

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