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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many died in the camps of Kolyma between 1936 and 1953?
(a) About a million.
(b) Nearly two million.
(c) 100,000.
(d) Around three million.

2. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?
(a) German Sterligov.
(b) Anatoly Sobchak.
(c) Vyacheslav Shostokovsky.
(d) Ilya Zaslavsky.

3. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $1,500.
(d) $3,000.

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

5. What was the plan called that was supposed to dismantle the Soviet system?
(a) Economic Revival.
(b) People's Economy.
(c) 500 Days.
(d) Economic Renewal.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the summer of 1990, how many people were quitting the Communist Party?

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

3. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?

4. Why was the Party so against the publication of Solzhenitsyn's books and his return to the Soviet Union?

5. What did Mikhail Leontyev, who studied economics at Plekhanov Institute, do to avoid working for the regime?

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