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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is disowned by their father after joining the Komsomol?
(a) Liuda.
(b) Ksenia.
(c) Lyonia.
(d) Mima.

2. What occurs on March 4, 1953?
(a) Khrushchev is assassinated.
(b) Stalin dies.
(c) Khrushchev falls in power.
(d) The war ends.

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

4. How long does Khrushchev attend formal schooling?
(a) 0 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 2 years.

5. Stalin becomes nervous and paranoid after the fall of what country?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Belgium.

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

7. When is Postyshev dropped from the Ukraine Central Committee?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1937.

8. Where does Khrushchev's wife, Nina, work?
(a) She is a housewife.
(b) Electric lamp factory.
(c) Shoe factory.
(d) Machine factory.

9. Who is assassinated in Leningrad in 1934?
(a) Vera.
(b) Kalinovka.
(c) Kriov.
(d) Kaganovich.

10. Who is murdered under Khrushchev's orders?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Malenkov.
(c) Ryl'ski.
(d) Romzha.

11. What does the spetsgurppy refer to?
(a) Communist sympathizers
(b) Black operation units.
(c) The Red Army.
(d) The Politburo.

12. What, concerning peasants, does Khrushchev reject?
(a) Peasant psychology.
(b) Work laws.
(c) Marriage laws.
(d) Education.

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

14. In 1953, where is Khrushchev in the Kremlin hierarchy?
(a) Top.
(b) Middle management.
(c) Last.
(d) 2nd or 3rd.

15. At what age does Khrushchev begin an apprenticeship with a fitter?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 17 years.
(c) 23 years.
(d) 15 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Great Patriotic War against?

2. What do Khrushchev's children warn him of?

3. When is Khrushchev born?

4. When does the Civil War end?

5. Where is Khrushchev born?

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