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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of Tretetsky's equipment was sabotaged?
(a) A tractor.
(b) A backhoe.
(c) A tank.
(d) A bulldozer.

2. Who would be undermined if the truth about the massacres is revealed?
(a) The Polish Communists.
(b) The KGB.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) Gorbachev.

3. Who did Stalin blame for the murders of Polish military officers in the 1940s?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The Poles.
(c) The French.
(d) The Czechs.

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

5. What news did Tretetsky and his men learn on August 21, 1991?
(a) The coup has failed.
(b) Gorbachev has stepped down.
(c) The coup was successful.
(d) They have to stop digging.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Tretetsky serve before being assigned to the Military Prosecutor's Office?

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

4. What film inspired Dmitri Yurasov when he was working as a laborer after being fired from the Supreme Court?

5. Where was Yakovlev when the letter in the Sovetskaya Rossiya was published on March 13?

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