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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Grigori Baklanov.
(b) Anatoly Anayev.
(c) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(d) Yakov Rapoport.

2. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
(a) Two rooms.
(b) One room.
(c) Four rooms.
(d) Five rooms.

3. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Vladimir Tokaryev.
(b) Tretetsky.
(c) Valery Boldin.
(d) Gorbachev.

4. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Politician.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Party leader.
(d) Lawyer.

5. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?
(a) Chernenko.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Volsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

2. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

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

5. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

(see the answer key)

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