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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In English, what is the title of Yerofeyev's book?
(a) Around Moscow.
(b) To Moscow and Back.
(c) Train Routes.
(d) Moscow Circles.

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

4. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?
(a) Pravda.
(b) Izvetia.
(c) Moscow News.
(d) Sovetskaya Rossiya.

5. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?
(a) His wife.
(b) Radio background emanation.
(c) Mussorgsky's music.
(d) The poem "Requiem."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

2. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

3. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

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

5. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?

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