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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) History of Socialism.
(b) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(c) Nina's Letter.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

2. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(b) That Gorbachev had died.
(c) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(d) That the State Committee had assumed power.

3. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1988.
(b) March 1990.
(c) May, 1988.
(d) January 1987.

4. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(c) Dachau Memorial.
(d) Buchenwald Monument.

5. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Yugoslavia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?

2. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

4. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?

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

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