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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?
(a) He is told that Gorbachev has died.
(b) He is told that he is being sent additional men.
(c) He is told about the coup.
(d) He is told by the KGB to stop digging.

2. Who succeeded Brezhnev?
(a) Brodsky.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Andropov.
(d) Gorbachev.

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

4. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 12.
(b) 150.
(c) 250.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper did Len Karpinsky work for and later edit?

2. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

3. What did Dinmukhamed Kunayev's wife want her husband to get for her?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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