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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

2. What was the radical opposition faction called that Sakharov, Yeltsin, and Popov put together in the legislature?
(a) The Freedom Group.
(b) Inter-Regional Group.
(c) Perestroika.
(d) The New Party.

3. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Anatoly Anayev.
(b) Grigori Baklanov.
(c) Yakov Rapoport.
(d) Dmitri Barshevsky.

4. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1974.

5. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Brezhnev.
(c) Chernenko.
(d) Yeltsin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Stalin study?

2. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

3. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

4. Who became the new KGB chief in 1988?

5. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

(see the answer key)

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