View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Mayakovsky's.
(b) Dimitrov's.
(c) Lenin's.
(d) Dolguriki's.

2. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?
(a) A deserted village.
(b) A bridge.
(c) An old factory.
(d) Mass graves.

3. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Kopelev.
(c) Kaganovich.
(d) Maksim.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 172 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample