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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?
(a) Yakovlev ordered them to run it.
(b) The provincial editors were afraid not to run it.
(c) Gorbachev ordered them to run it.
(d) The provincial editors approved of the message.

2. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(b) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.
(c) History of Socialism.
(d) Nina's Letter.

3. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(c) Dachau Memorial.
(d) Buchenwald Monument.

4. What society did Pavel belong to that tells him that there could be enemies anywhere, even at home?
(a) Communist Youth Organization.
(b) Timur Society.
(c) Stalin Youth.
(d) Komsomol.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?

2. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

3. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

4. Who was Bukharian's wife?

5. When was Gorbachev born?

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