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

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

3. What does education offer men during the time discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A change for political office.
(c) A job in a factory.
(d) A manager position.

4. In Chapter 9, how do the Politburo colleagues perceive Malenkov?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Weak.
(c) A threat.
(d) Powerful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1953, approximately how many people die in labor camps?

2. What do Zhdanov and Voznesnsky form after the Old Guard falls?

3. Who is murdered under Khrushchev's orders?

4. As party secretary for the school, what group does Khrushchev join?

5. What occurs on March 4, 1953?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Khrushchev feel about Stalin?

5. Why does Khrushchev begin to defend the people against his own government?

6. Why does Khrushchev's family flee Kiev?

7. What is the Bolsheviks' view on peasants?

8. Unlike many of his colleagues, what does Khrushchev have a fascination about?

9. What problems follow Khrushchev to the academy?

10. Why does Khrushchev decline an invitation to serve as deputy head of the Soviet government?

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