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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Ninotchka.
(b) Bravo, Rosa.
(c) Forward, Forward.
(d) Onward, Onward, Onward.

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

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

4. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czech demonstration.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech Socialism.
(d) Czechoslovakia Freedom.

5. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?
(a) Pushing himself on a dolly cart.
(b) Using a wheelchair.
(c) Using crutches.
(d) Using a wagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. On July 29, what power did Yeltsin want Gorbachev to give to the republics?

2. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

3. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

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

5. Who was Miss KGB?

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