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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Andropov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brodsky.
(d) Sakharov.

2. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?
(a) An old grandmother.
(b) A tenant evicted.
(c) Men playing dominoes.
(d) A cat thrown out of a window.

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

4. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(b) Nina's Letter.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) History of Socialism.

5. When was Gorbachev born?
(a) April 1932.
(b) June 1928.
(c) May 1929.
(d) March 1931.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

2. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

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

4. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

5. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

(see the answer key)

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