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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) The Wishing Tree.
(b) Ivan Denisovich.
(c) Supplication.
(d) Repentance.

2. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) January 1985.
(b) December 1984.
(c) March 1985.
(d) March 1986.

3. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Andropov.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Brodsky.
(d) Sakharov.

4. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 12.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

2. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

3. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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