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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(b) History of Socialism.
(c) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(d) Nina's Letter.

2. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Exports of wheat.
(b) Tourism.
(c) Steel production.
(d) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.

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) 25,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 100,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

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

3. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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