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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) The Wishing Tree.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Supplication.

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

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

4. What young Party leader in Southern Russia did Yakovlev help protect in the 1970s?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Borosov.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Swoboda.

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Richard Spooner.
(b) David Kauffman.
(c) Alex Pryor.
(d) Bob Protexter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the October Region, what did entreprenueur Sterligov set up as a place where like-minded tycoons could get together and make plans?

2. Who did Volkogonov say was probably responsible for the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov?

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

5. Where was Stalin's hometown?

(see the answer key)

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