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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Ivan Denisovich.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Supplication.
(d) The Wishing Tree.

2. Who wrote the saga of Rome's decline and fall?
(a) Gibbon.
(b) Pope Gregory I.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aristotle.

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. During the Gorbachev era, what did old women sell in city parks as a vaccine against Aids?
(a) Herbal sachets.
(b) Copper bracelets.
(c) Bottled medicines made mostly of alcohol.
(d) Magnets.

5. In 1989, with whose portrait did some older women replace their portraits of Lenin?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Shakarov.
(c) Ligachev.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?

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

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

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

5. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

(see the answer key)

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