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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the government give for Khrushchev's leaving office?
(a) He was of retirement age.
(b) Health reasons.
(c) Voted out.
(d) Treason.

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

3. When is Trotsky exiled?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1928.

4. When does Zhdanov die?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1950.

5. How many citizens does the Great Patriotic War take from the Soviet?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 27 million.
(c) 45 million.
(d) 1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Khrushchev find work in 1914?

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

3. What is the goal of the academy discussed in Chapter 5?

4. What occurs on March 4, 1953?

5. During Chapter 7, where does Khrushchev's family flee to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Khrushchev begin to do while working as an apprentice?

2. Why does Khrushchev prefer pseudo-science?

3. Rather then vacationing during the summer of 1964, as was recommended, what does Khrushchev do instead?

4. In terms of percentages of resources, what does WWII take from the USSR and Ukraine?

5. What benefit does Khrushchev receive from having Ivan Pisarev as a friend?

6. What is Khrushchev's experience with the Red Guard by 1918-1919?

7. Why does Khrushchev wear a mask when dealing with Beria?

8. What is Khrushchev hoping as a result of his voluntary retirement?

9. What does Khrushchev do as a chief political commissar?

10. Why should Khrushchev have listened to his children's warnings of conspiracy?

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