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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(c) To get a book published.
(d) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.

2. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Solzhenitsyn.
(b) Gefter.
(c) Medvedev.
(d) Brezhnev.

3. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.
(b) When his apartment was broken into.
(c) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(d) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.

4. Who was Bukharian's wife?
(a) Nina Andreyeva.
(b) Anna Larina.
(c) Zoya Belayeva.
(d) Larisa Bogoraz.

5. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Ulyanovsk.
(b) Kazan.
(c) Tbilisi.
(d) Gori.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

2. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

3. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

4. When did the return of history begin?

5. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?

(see the answer key)

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