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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

2. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

3. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

4. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

5. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

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