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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Forward, Forward.
(b) Onward, Onward, Onward.
(c) Ninotchka.
(d) Bravo, Rosa.

2. How old was Boris Yeltsin when he had his first encounter with the Communist Party?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

3. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(c) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(d) To get a book published.

4. How long did economist Stanislav Shatalin think it would be before the Soviet Union would have a modern economy?
(a) 500 days.
(b) Generations.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 5 years.

5. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A tractor.
(b) A backhoe.
(c) A bulldozer.
(d) A tank.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

3. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

4. Why did democratic leader Anatoly Sobchak have a picture of Lenin in his office?

5. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?

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