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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) History.
(b) Science.
(c) Law.
(d) Theatre.

2. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Books.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Films.
(d) Television.

3. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(b) With Khruschev in 1956.
(c) With Kukushkin in 1981.
(d) With Gorbachev in 1985.

4. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

5. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Determinist History.
(b) History of the Communist Party.
(c) Short Course.
(d) Let History Judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gorbachev grow up?

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

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

4. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

5. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

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