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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Khrushchev expecting on March 1, 1953?
(a) Election into government position.
(b) Summons from Stalin.
(c) The end of the war.
(d) The birth of his son.

2. How many hours per day does Khrushchev work as an apprentice?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 20 hours.
(d) 14 hours.

3. What is the economic climate of the Soviet Union in 1964?
(a) Grim.
(b) Beginning to decline.
(c) Beginning to pick up.
(d) Prosperous.

4. After leading a battalion, Khrushchev is promoted to an instructor of what?
(a) Captain.
(b) Red Leader.
(c) Ninth Army Political Department.
(d) Bolshevik Elite.

5. Who takes over as party leader after Khrushchev leaves office?
(a) Kosygin.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Brezhnev.
(d) Mikoyan.

6. In 1912, why is Khrushchev fired from two different jobs?
(a) His political activities.
(b) Poor performance.
(c) Bad attitude.
(d) Sleeping on the job.

7. What country is Khrushchev fascinated with?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Canada.

8. Why is Sergei in a body cast?
(a) Polio.
(b) Multiple broken bones.
(c) Yellow Fever.
(d) Tuberculosis.

9. Who is the Great Patriotic War against?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Great Britain.

10. What does Khrushchev become head of in 1944?
(a) White Army.
(b) Soviet government.
(c) Ukrainian government.
(d) Red Army.

11. What is life like for Khrushchev and the other men in the barracks?
(a) Brutal.
(b) Constant fear.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Pleasant.

12. When are the Leningraders sentenced to death?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1948.

13. What position does Khrushchev hold at a Red Square funeral?
(a) Driver.
(b) Speaker.
(c) Ex officio.
(d) Pastor.

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

15. Who does Khrushchev consider a self-aggrandizing, anti-Darwinist scientist?
(a) Lysenko.
(b) Korneichuk.
(c) Dovzhenko.
(d) Bazhan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Khrushchev take full credit for in 1939?

2. Where does the biggest tank battle in history take place?

3. What is Khrushchev accused of during the verbal assault in 1964?

4. How many of Khrushchev's key party and industrial leaders have been lost?

5. Who is murdered under Khrushchev's orders?

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