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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Remnick meet a free man who was an itinerant fisherman?
(a) Novyy Port.
(b) Talinn.
(c) Sakhalin Island.
(d) Odesa.

4. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 35,000.

5. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) Nina's Letter.
(b) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(c) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(d) History of Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?

2. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

3. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

4. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

5. When did Gorbachev take office?

(see the answer key)

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