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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 Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?
(a) Exile.
(b) 10 years hard labor.
(c) 5 years in Siberia.
(d) 15 years in Siberia.

2. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Ukraine.

3. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A tank.
(b) A bulldozer.
(c) A tractor.
(d) A backhoe.

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

5. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Yeltsin.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Chernenko.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

2. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?

3. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

4. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

5. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

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