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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He was a pickpocket.
(b) He collected empties.
(c) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(d) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.

2. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Grigori Baklanov.
(b) Yakov Rapoport.
(c) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(d) Anatoly Anayev.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

2. What year did the Bolsheviks size power in Russia?

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

4. What was the news on August 19, 1991?

5. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

(see the answer key)

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