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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Anatoly Kapustin.
(b) Boris Chagin.
(c) Nikolai Petrakov.
(d) Yuri Kukushkin.

4. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Magadan.
(b) Kharovsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Klyuchi.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Remnick move to Moscow?

3. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

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

5. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?

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