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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Khrushchev feel about his father taking him out of school?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Confused.
(d) Depressed.

2. In what years does Stalin suffer strokes?
(a) 1948 and 1948.
(b) 1943 and 1945.
(c) 1947 and 1951.
(d) 1945 and 1947.

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

4. When does Khrushchev become a full member of the Central Committee?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1924.

5. At dinners with Stalin, what must everyone do before Stalin will eat?
(a) Wash their hands.
(b) Praise him.
(c) Sample the dishes.
(d) Say a blessing.

6. What group emphasizes economic improvement in 1917?
(a) Red party.
(b) Mensheciks.
(c) Bolshevik.
(d) Rabfak.

7. How does the party test Khrushchev's loyalty in 1930?
(a) Asks him to act as a spy.
(b) Makes him sign a letter to Pravda.
(c) Swears him into the party.
(d) Forces him to manipulate others.

8. Why does Stalin force his company to drink excessively?
(a) To socialize.
(b) To have fun.
(c) To loosen their tongues.
(d) So he does not drink alone.

9. How many communist officials and sympathizers are killed by the underground?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 40,000.

10. By Kremlin standards, how is Khrushchev regarded?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) A nice guy.

11. Who becomes Khrushchev's assistant while head of the Ukrainian Party?
(a) Tychyna.
(b) Shevchenko.
(c) Korneichuk.
(d) Bazhan.

12. How does Khrushchev's wife die?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Small Pox.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Murdered.

13. What are two main epidemics in the barracks in 1908?
(a) Drug abuse and crime.
(b) Alcoholism and disease.
(c) Alcoholism and crime.
(d) Disease and crime.

14. When does Sergei die?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

15. What do Khrushchev's children warn him of?
(a) Staying in Moscow too long.
(b) Conspiracy.
(c) Unloyal friends.
(d) Losing the election.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Khrushchev know Stalin no longer trusts him?

2. At the academy, how many words of a foreign language are students supposed to learn?

3. When does Zhdanov die?

4. Who does Khrushchev side with in 1923, putting himself in danger with the party?

5. Who is the Great Patriotic War against?

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