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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) December 1984.
(b) January 1985.
(c) March 1985.
(d) March 1986.

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(b) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(c) They were told by the camp commandant.
(d) They saw him shot.

4. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?
(a) March 18, 1952.
(b) August 12, 1953.
(c) December 16, 1954.
(d) September 15, 1950.

5. When did the return of history begin?
(a) With Khruschev in 1956.
(b) With Solzhenitsyn in 1974.
(c) With Gorbachev in 1985.
(d) With Kukushkin in 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did Bukharian's wife spend in prison or exile?

2. How did the regime support itself under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko?

3. What did Sakharov love most of all in life, according to Yelena Bonner?

4. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

5. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

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