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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the people at Spasskaya get their food?
(a) Grow it on the collective.
(b) Grow it in their garden plots.
(c) Buy it in Ashkhabad.
(d) Buy it in Vologda.

2. 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.

3. When did Remnick move to Moscow?
(a) January 1987.
(b) January 1988.
(c) March 1990.
(d) May, 1988.

4. What happened to some of those who executed the Polish officers?
(a) They faced military tribunals.
(b) They went mad and committed suicide.
(c) They were court martialed.
(d) They were executed themselves.

5. Who did Remnick tell Flora Litvinov he was looking for?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Maksim.
(c) Kopelev.
(d) Kaganovich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Tretetsky receiving phone calls all day on August 19, 1991?

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

3. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

4. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?

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

(see the answer key)

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