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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Nevsky.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Gorbachev.

2. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?
(a) Down with the Party.
(b) Total Independence for Lithuania.
(c) Independence for the Baltic States.
(d) Time for Freedom.

3. In the 1989 elections, what percent of the 2,250 deputies were Party members?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 95 percent.

4. Where did Yelena Chukovskaya send an article appealing to the government to return Solzhenitsyn's citizenship?
(a) Novy Mir.
(b) Writers' Union.
(c) Worker's World.
(d) Book Review.

5. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That Gorbachev had died.
(b) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(c) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(d) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "How Can We Revitalize Russia" published September 18, 1990, in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"?

2. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?

3. Who did the people elect as president in June 1991?

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

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

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