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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?
(a) 18 years old.
(b) 30 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 25 years old.

3. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) The coup was successful.
(c) They have to stop digging.
(d) Gorbachev has stepped down.

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

5. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?
(a) 300.
(b) 35.
(c) 500.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?

2. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

4. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?

5. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

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