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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Khrushchev years, what Solzhenitsyn manuscript was authorized to be run in Novy Mir?
(a) Cancer Ward.
(b) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
(c) The Gulag Archipelago.
(d) In the First Circle.

2. What statue was across the street from Remnick's apartment?
(a) Mayakovsky's.
(b) Dolguriki's.
(c) Dimitrov's.
(d) Lenin's.

3. How did Yeryomenko learn to speak excellent English?
(a) Living in Britain.
(b) He has an American tutor.
(c) Listening to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC.
(d) Living in the United States.

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

5. What young socialist from Philadelphia came to the Soviet Union in 1932?
(a) John Scott.
(b) Thomas Davidson.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Robert Eichelberger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1974, who was the first man forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union since Trotsky?

3. Who was one of the key plotters in the August coup?

4. When was the explosion of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb?

5. What did Gorbachev use to spread his message?

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