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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 Gorbachev use to spread his message?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Films.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

2. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?
(a) Denisov.
(b) Ligachev.
(c) Chikin.
(d) Andreyeva.

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

4. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Politician.
(b) Party leader.
(c) Propaganda man.
(d) Lawyer.

5. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?
(a) Yakov Rapoport.
(b) Dmitri Barshevsky.
(c) Anatoly Anayev.
(d) Grigori Baklanov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?

2. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.

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

4. Why did the letter that was published March 13 in Sovetskaya Rossiya also run in newspapers across the country?

5. Who did Andropov want to succeed him when he died?

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