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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) March 1986.
(b) January 1985.
(c) December 1984.
(d) March 1985.

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) They saw him shot.
(c) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(d) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.

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

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

5. Who was a self-proclaimed pioneer of Soviet capitalism who set up a private commodities brokerage?
(a) German Sterligov.
(b) Vasiliyev.
(c) Anton Danielets.
(d) Zaslavsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

2. Who was the Soviet who supposedly collaborated with Christine Keller to bring down Profumo, Britain's minister of war?

3. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

4. Where did Sakharov's body lie in state?

5. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?

(see the answer key)

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