View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book did Solzhenitsyn want Novy Mir to publish first?
(a) The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) Cancer Ward.
(c) First Circle.
(d) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

3. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. Who replaced Ligachev as party ideologist?
(a) Oleg Falkovich.
(b) Vadim Medvedev.
(c) Dmitri Chegodayev.
(d) Vladimir Dolgikh.

5. Who claimed to heal the Romanovs' son of hemophilia?
(a) Rasputin.
(b) Smirnov.
(c) Kaganovich.
(d) Kashpirovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

2. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

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

4. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 244 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample