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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Gefter.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Medvedev.

2. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) World dignitaries demanded their release.
(b) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(c) Gorbachov's interference.
(d) Stalin's death.

3. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Dubcek.

4. Where did Yakovlev go after an article of his irritated Brezhnev?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) United States.
(d) Canada.

5. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(b) He collected empties.
(c) He was a pickpocket.
(d) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

2. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

4. In 1989 when the people were to vote for the new Congress of People's Deputies, who wanted sovereignty?

5. What did an elderly factory worker write on a banner that angered Gorbachev?

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