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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play did Yegor Ligachev and other Party ideologues object to?
(a) Ninotchka.
(b) Onward, Onward, Onward.
(c) Bravo, Rosa.
(d) Forward, Forward.

2. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A tractor.
(b) A bulldozer.
(c) A tank.
(d) A backhoe.

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

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

5. What did both Lenin and Stalin use to advertise the Revolution?
(a) Speeches.
(b) Books.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?

3. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?

4. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?

5. What group threatened the Jews in Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk?

(see the answer key)

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