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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) 200,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Science.
(b) Law.
(c) Theatre.
(d) History.

3. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Tbilisi.
(b) Gori.
(c) Ulyanovsk.
(d) Kazan.

4. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?
(a) Medvedev.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Gefter.
(d) Brezhnev.

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?
(a) They became prisoners of the regime.
(b) They became good Russians.
(c) They became soldiers.
(d) They became alcoholics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?

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

3. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

4. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

5. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?

(see the answer key)

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