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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the most popular politician in the Soviet Union according to "Argumenti i Fakti"?
(a) Afanasyev.
(b) Yeltsin.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Sakharov.

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Mongolia.

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

4. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Lenigrad.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Azerbaijan.

5. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(b) For writing a book about literature.
(c) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.
(d) For writing a book about language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?

2. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?

3. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

4. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

5. When was Gorbachev born?

(see the answer key)

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