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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Valery Boldin.
(b) Tretetsky.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Vladimir Tokaryev.

2. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Shalamov.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Sinyavsky.
(d) Kopelev.

3. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 25,000.

4. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1987.
(b) March 1990.
(c) May, 1988.
(d) January 1988.

5. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They faced military tribunals.
(b) They were court martialed.
(c) They went mad and committed suicide.
(d) They were executed themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

2. What was the news on August 19, 1991?

3. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

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

5. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

(see the answer key)

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