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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?
(a) Supplication.
(b) The Wishing Tree.
(c) Ivan Denisovich.
(d) Repentance.

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

3. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 35,000.

4. How much would Remnick have been charged for a phone that had the capability to call abroad?
(a) $150.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $15.

5. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(b) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.
(c) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(d) That Gorbachev had died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

2. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?

3. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?

4. What did Remnick see when he was talking to an old man whose wife had leukemia?

5. When did the return of history begin?

(see the answer key)

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