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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) Metal workers went on strike.
(b) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(c) The release of Sakharov.
(d) Chernobyl.

2. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Volsky.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Chernenko.
(d) Brezhnev.

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Water.
(d) Steel.

4. What was the first major monument to victims of the regime?
(a) A replica of a prison barracks.
(b) A plaque on Lubyanka Square.
(c) A statue of Solzhenitsyn.
(d) A stone from Solovki.

5. What young politician was elected chairman of the October District in Moscow during the first elections?
(a) Vyacheslav Shostokovsky.
(b) German Sterligov.
(c) Ilya Zaslavsky.
(d) Anatoly Sobchak.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?

4. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

5. Who was the first CIA operative ever to defect to the Soviet Union and the KGB?

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