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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(c) Dachau Memorial.
(d) Buchenwald Monument.

2. Why did Arnold Yeryomenko come to Moscow in June 1988?
(a) To do an interview for a newspaper article.
(b) To attend the Nineteenth Party Conference.
(c) To meet with fellow Party leaders.
(d) To get a book published.

3. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 12.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

4. What did Gorbachev study at Moscow State University?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Law.
(c) History.
(d) Science.

5. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?
(a) Gorbachov's interference.
(b) Stalin's death.
(c) World dignitaries demanded their release.
(d) Khrushchev's disapproval.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

2. Who at the Central Committee's ideology office was behind the March 13 letter in Sovetskaya Rossiya?

3. Where was Stalin's hometown?

4. When did Gorbachev give a speech designed to manipulate the historical debate and to "spit on Stalin"?

5. Which former cellmate of Solzhenitsyn was a role model for Pavel Litvinov?

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