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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) The Wishing Tree.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Supplication.

2. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Yakov Rapoport.
(b) Anatoly Anayev.
(c) Grigori Baklanov.
(d) Dmitri Barshevsky.

3. What group was attacked sometime between the Andreyeva affair and the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1988?
(a) Jews.
(b) Ukrainians.
(c) Chuvash.
(d) Crimean Tatars.

4. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Buy it in Vologda.
(b) Grow it in their garden plots.
(c) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(d) Grow it on the collective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

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 did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

5. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?

(see the answer key)

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