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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Communist Youth Organization.
(b) Stalin Youth.
(c) Komsomol.
(d) Timur Society.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1918 to 1940.
(b) 1920-1932.
(c) 1840-1858.
(d) 1898-1935.

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

4. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Ukraine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

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

3. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?

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

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

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