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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $15.
(b) $150.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $20,000.

2. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) World dignitaries demanded their release.
(b) Khrushchev's disapproval.
(c) Gorbachov's interference.
(d) Stalin's death.

3. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Denisov.
(b) Ligachev.
(c) Chikin.
(d) Andreyeva.

4. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They were executed themselves.
(b) They faced military tribunals.
(c) They were court martialed.
(d) They went mad and committed suicide.

5. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

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

5. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?

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