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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Mayakovsky's.
(b) Dimitrov's.
(c) Dolguriki's.
(d) Lenin's.

2. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?
(a) The Poles.
(b) The French.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The Czechs.

3. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?
(a) 10 years hard labor.
(b) Exile.
(c) 5 years in Siberia.
(d) 15 years in Siberia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

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

3. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

4. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

5. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

(see the answer key)

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