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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alik the wanderer Remnick met at the Kazan Station, get money?
(a) He would unload the vodka delivery truck.
(b) He collected empties.
(c) He was a pickpocket.
(d) He would hold a place in line for people at a store.

2. When was Sakharov allowed to return to Moscow?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1986.

3. What kept the Soviet economy going for awhile?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Oil revenue and the energy crisis.
(c) Exports of wheat.
(d) Steel production.

4. Who did Akhmadzhan Adylov say was his ancestor?
(a) Ghangis Khan.
(b) Frederick William I.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Tamerlane the Great.

5. What was the news on August 19, 1991?
(a) That Gorbachev had died.
(b) That the State Committee had assumed power.
(c) That there is an uprising in the Ukraine.
(d) That there is an uprising in the Balkan states.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?

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

5. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.

(see the answer key)

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