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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Cotton exports.
(b) Oil profits.
(c) Steel profits.
(d) Tobacco exports.

2. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1912.

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

4. What was the legacy of collectivization?
(a) Food production increased.
(b) More than seven thousand ruined villages.
(c) The peasants increased their standard of living.
(d) Young people moved to the farms to work there.

5. Who was a video healer who appeared on state television?
(a) Kashpirovsky.
(b) Arbatov.
(c) Obolensky.
(d) Rasputin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

2. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?

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

4. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?

5. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

(see the answer key)

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