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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Sinyavsky.
(c) Kopelev.
(d) Shalamov.

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

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become traders.
(b) Helped them become farmers.
(c) Committed genocide.
(d) Destroyed their culture.

4. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The Balkans.

5. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Moscow.
(b) Klyuchi.
(c) Magadan.
(d) Kharovsk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Pavel's sentence for demonstrating at Red Square in 1968?

3. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?

4. What textbook did Stalin supervise and have fifty million copies published?

5. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

(see the answer key)

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