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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?
(a) A cat thrown out of a window.
(b) Men playing dominoes.
(c) An old grandmother.
(d) A tenant evicted.

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

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

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

5. Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, who accelerated the shattering of the Communist Party?
(a) Brezhnev.
(b) Yeltsin.
(c) Gorbachev.
(d) Chernenko.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?

3. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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