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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did perestroika spin out of control in 1989?
(a) In the Congress.
(b) In the KGB.
(c) On the collectives.
(d) In the mines.

2. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?
(a) Cotton exports.
(b) Steel profits.
(c) Tobacco exports.
(d) Oil profits.

3. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(b) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(c) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(d) Had Sakharov removed from the building.

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

5. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The Polish Communists.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The KGB.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Magnitogorsk, how much was sunlight was reduced by pollution?

2. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

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

4. Why did democratic leader Anatoly Sobchak have a picture of Lenin in his office?

5. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?

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