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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 1 million.

2. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Timur Society.
(b) Communist Youth Organization.
(c) Stalin Youth.
(d) Komsomol.

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

4. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) The coup was successful.
(c) They have to stop digging.
(d) Gorbachev has stepped down.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

3. When did Gorbachev take office?

4. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

5. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

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