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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?
(a) The Balkans.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Siberia.

3. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Ligachev.
(b) Denisov.
(c) Andreyeva.
(d) Chikin.

4. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Ivan Denisovich.
(b) Supplication.
(c) Repentance.
(d) The Wishing Tree.

5. 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) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) Nina's Letter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

4. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

5. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?

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