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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Dubcek.
(d) Walesa.

2. Why did the workers strike at Novocherkassk in June 1962?
(a) They wanted soap.
(b) The prices of food went up and their wages went down.
(c) They wanted better working conditions.
(d) They wanted better hours.

3. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?
(a) Edward Howard.
(b) Andrew Holmes.
(c) David Johnson.
(d) John Smythe.

4. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) In the Congress.
(b) In the mines.
(c) On the collectives.
(d) In the KGB.

5. In 1991, where did Yakovlev tell his friends they would soon be seeing one another?
(a) The United States.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Lithuania.
(d) The Baltic States.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

2. Who started what was billed as the first independent newspaper in the Soviet Union?

3. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?

4. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?

5. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?

(see the answer key)

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