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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What relatives of Khrushchev serve together in the army?
(a) Father and brother.
(b) Grandfathers.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Uncles.

3. What type of leader is Khrushchev described as?
(a) Ineffective and rude.
(b) Effective and strong.
(c) Effective and rude.
(d) Indecisive but pleasant.

4. Where does the biggest tank battle in history take place?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Kursk.
(d) Kharkov.

5. What is the average number of people per hut in Khrushchev's home town?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

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

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

8. How many congressional delegates are arrested for counter-revolutionary crimes?
(a) 1,108.
(b) 68.
(c) 1,225.
(d) 71.

9. How many of Khrushchev's key party and industrial leaders have been lost?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 40%.

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

11. What happens to Lenin in 1922 that leaves him an invalid until his death?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) A stroke.
(d) Polio.

12. What does Bolshevik demand political leaders to be?
(a) Liberals.
(b) From the upper class.
(c) Cultural Rulers.
(d) Highly educated.

13. What is the population of the town Khrushchev lives in in 1908?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

15. How much of the USSR's wealth does WWII claim?
(a) 30%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is disowned by their father after joining the Komsomol?

2. Who takes over as Prime Minister after Khrushchev leaves office?

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

4. What does Khrushchev become head of in 1944?

5. What does the spetsgurppy refer to?

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