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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the chemistry students that Khrushchev begins to work with?
(a) The student is Stalin.
(b) The student is a future Noble Prize winner.
(c) The student is Stalin's wife.
(d) The student will be Khrushchev's future wife.

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

3. Discussed in Chapter 13, what does Khrushchev feel that Germany, France, and Italy will do?
(a) Create alliances with Poland.
(b) Increase their military presence.
(c) Stop trade with Russia.
(d) Start a revolution.

4. In what year does the Red Army invade Poland?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1937.

5. What does Khrushchev aim to improve with his career ambitions?
(a) Economy.
(b) Peasant life.
(c) Worker conditions.
(d) Taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Khrushchev feel about his father taking him out of school?

2. Who do the people blame for the food shortages in 1961?

3. Who is the driving force behind the 1962 anti-Stalin campaign?

4. What does Khrushchev take control of before defeating the "anti-party" group?

5. Who does Stalin support during WWII simply to appease the US?

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