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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Khrushchev consider Malenkov and Bulganin to be?
(a) Unloyal colleagues.
(b) His best friends.
(c) Potential leaders.
(d) Enemies.

2. What U.S. pilot is captured by the Soviets after parachuting out of his downed plane?
(a) Lindenburg.
(b) Powers.
(c) Thorez.
(d) Reston.

3. When is Khrushchev dispatched to the head of the Ukrainian Party?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1942.

4. How does the U.S. respond to the U-2 incident that led to the capture of a U.S. pilot?
(a) Comes clean.
(b) Demand the release of the pilot.
(c) Lies.
(d) They never find out the pilot was captured.

5. What does every U-2 mission require?
(a) A practice run.
(b) Five soldiers.
(c) Presidential authorization.
(d) Khrushchev's approval.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stalin demand the Russification of?

2. Who becomes Khrushchev's assistant while head of the Ukrainian Party?

3. Who does Khrushchev consider a self-aggrandizing, anti-Darwinist scientist?

4. How many citizens march for Stalin in his home of Georgia?

5. What policy alienates the Chinese and creates false holes in the Soviet Union?

(see the answer key)

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