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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Onward, Onward, Onward.
(b) Ninotchka.
(c) Bravo, Rosa.
(d) Forward, Forward.

2. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Twenty years.

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

4. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that he is being sent additional men.
(b) He is told about the coup.
(c) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.
(d) He is told that Gorbachev has died.

5. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Grigori Baklanov.
(b) Yakov Rapoport.
(c) Anatoly Anayev.
(d) Dmitri Barshevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?

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

3. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?

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

5. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

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