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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, how do the Politburo colleagues perceive Malenkov?
(a) Powerful.
(b) A threat.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Weak.

2. What occurs on March 4, 1953?
(a) Stalin dies.
(b) Khrushchev is assassinated.
(c) Khrushchev falls in power.
(d) The war ends.

3. After leading a battalion, Khrushchev is promoted to an instructor of what?
(a) Red Leader.
(b) Ninth Army Political Department.
(c) Bolshevik Elite.
(d) Captain.

4. What does Khrushchev take full credit for in 1939?
(a) Decreased unemployment.
(b) Harvest.
(c) Lowered taxes.
(d) Winning War.

5. What happens to Stalin on March 1, 1953?
(a) Summons Khrushchev.
(b) Dies.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Is assassinated.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Khrushchev begin an apprenticeship with a fitter?

2. What is life like for Khrushchev and the other men in the barracks?

3. When does the biggest tank battle in history take place?

4. Who becomes Khrushchev's assistant while head of the Ukrainian Party?

5. When are Khrushchev's first children born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Khrushchev do when elected party secretary for the school he has been attending?

2. What is Khrushchev hoping as a result of his voluntary retirement?

3. How does Stalin feel about Khrushchev's reform plans?

4. What does Khrushchev do as a chief political commissar?

5. Why does politics divert Khrushchev's educational plans?

6. Why does Khrushchev feel too inexperienced to head the Ukrainian Party?

7. As leader of Moscow's smallest district, how does Khrushchev prove himself?

8. What is Khrushchev involved in once he moves to Kharlov?

9. Why does the author suggest that Khrushchev embraces revolution?

10. Why should Khrushchev have listened to his children's warnings of conspiracy?

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