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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Anna Larina.
(b) Nina Andreyeva.
(c) Larisa Bogoraz.
(d) Zoya Belayeva.

5. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The KGB.
(d) The Polish Communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

2. When did the return of history begin?

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

4. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?

5. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

(see the answer key)

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