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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Steel production.
(d) Exports of wheat.

2. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 12.
(b) 150.
(c) 250.
(d) 1,000.

3. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?
(a) Let History Judge.
(b) Determinist History.
(c) Short Course.
(d) History of the Communist Party.

4. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Sinyavsky.
(c) Shalamov.
(d) Kopelev.

5. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $15.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $20,000.
(d) $150.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?

2. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

3. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

4. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

5. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

(see the answer key)

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