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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Politician.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Party leader.

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

3. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Magadan.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Klyuchi.
(d) Kharovsk.

4. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Speeches.
(d) Books.

5. What made Kapustin show his true feelings to Remnick?
(a) A conversation with Guly.
(b) Damage to his car.
(c) Three vodkas.
(d) A strike by the miners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. What major event in Soviet history was preserved the longest?

4. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?

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?

(see the answer key)

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