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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) Buchenwald Monument.
(c) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(d) Dachau Memorial.

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

3. In 1968, what was Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create "socialism with a human face" called?
(a) Czechoslovakia Freedom.
(b) Prague Spring.
(c) Czech demonstration.
(d) Czech Socialism.

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become farmers.
(b) Destroyed their culture.
(c) Helped them become traders.
(d) Committed genocide.

5. What made Remnick realize that the threats against the Jews in 1988 were serious?
(a) When he found a Y for Yid on his car door.
(b) When the KGB threatened his wife.
(c) When his apartment was broken into.
(d) When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

2. When Remnick was in Moscow, who was the last survivor of the Doctors' Plot?

3. Who succeeded Brezhnev?

4. How many Polish soldiers were killed the first night in Kalinin?

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

(see the answer key)

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