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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(b) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(c) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(d) That Gorbachev had died.

2. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Military Collegium.
(b) A Russian orthodox seminary.
(c) Scientific Industrial Union.
(d) Historical Archives Institute.

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?
(a) Yuri Kukushkin.
(b) Nikolai Petrakov.
(c) Anatoly Kapustin.
(d) Boris Chagin.

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

5. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Repentance.
(b) Ivan Denisovich.
(c) The Wishing Tree.
(d) Supplication.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?

2. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

3. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

4. Who was Bukharian's wife?

5. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?

(see the answer key)

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