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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?
(a) Valery Boldin.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Vladimir Tokaryev.
(d) Tretetsky.

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

3. How old was Dmitri Yorosov when he started filling out index cards with the names of people who disappeared?
(a) 18 years old.
(b) 11 years old.
(c) 30 years old.
(d) 25 years old.

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

5. Where was Gorbachev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dmitri Vasiliyev say Russian children were being turned into alcoholics by the Jews?

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

3. What was the work site where Colonel Tretetsky and his men worked?

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

5. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?

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