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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Obolensky.
(b) Rasputin.
(c) Arbatov.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

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

3. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) The President of the United States, George Bush.
(b) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(c) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
(d) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.

4. What book project got Volkogonov demoted to the Institute of Military History?
(a) A history of the czars.
(b) A history of World War II.
(c) A book about Stalin.
(d) A book about Khrushchev.

5. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(b) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(c) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(d) By putting alcohol in ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?

3. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?

4. When were tanks sent to Lithuania? .

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

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