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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Sakharov die?
(a) December 14, 1989.
(b) October 24, 1989.
(c) January 4, 1990.
(d) May 14, 1989.

2. In August 1991, where was Gorbachev when the coup started?
(a) Moscow.
(b) England.
(c) Yugoslavia.
(d) Crimea.

3. What did Pugo's men do during Bush's visit to the Soviet Union?
(a) Rounded up editors of dissident newspapers and imprisoned them.
(b) Instituted martial law.
(c) Slaughtered eight Lithuanian border police.
(d) Stationed tanks in Latvia.

4. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?
(a) Radio background emanation.
(b) His wife.
(c) Mussorgsky's music.
(d) The poem "Requiem."

5. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?
(a) By placing alcohol in soft drinks.
(b) By putting alcohol in pudding.
(c) By slipping alcohol in the yogurt supply.
(d) By putting alcohol in ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refused to be interviewed by Remnick during the first session of Congress?

2. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

3. How much would foreign television stations have had to pay for a videotape of Sakharov's last days?

4. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?

5. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?

(see the answer key)

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