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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On July 29, what power did Yeltsin want Gorbachev to give to the republics?
(a) Power over the military.
(b) Power to have a multi-party system.
(c) Power to elect all government officials.
(d) Power to levy taxes and distribute funds.

2. What did the battle over the draft for a new history book represent to Yazov?
(a) The trend toward democracy.
(b) Disrespect for the system.
(c) Young men ignoring their draft notices.
(d) Struggle for power in the Soviet Union.

3. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Volsky.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Chernenko.

4. Why was Vitaly Goldovitch, a physicist who had worked in defense research, in a labor camp in the 1980s?
(a) He was accused of espionage for the United States.
(b) He tried to row a raft to Turkey.
(c) He was accused of being a dissident.
(d) He was accused of selling state secrets to Britain.

5. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?
(a) December 16, 1954.
(b) September 15, 1950.
(c) March 18, 1952.
(d) August 12, 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

2. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

3. When did the return of history begin?

4. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

5. Where did Yakovlev study abroad?

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