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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Stalin study?
(a) Historical Archives Institute.
(b) Military Collegium.
(c) Scientific Industrial Union.
(d) A Russian orthodox seminary.

2. When did Gorbachev take office?
(a) January 1985.
(b) March 1986.
(c) March 1985.
(d) December 1984.

3. What did Brezhnev want from the Uzbeks?
(a) Steel.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Water.

4. How big was Remnick's Moscow apartment?
(a) One room.
(b) Four rooms.
(c) Five rooms.
(d) Two rooms.

5. What was the title of the letter published in the Sovetskaya Rossiya that contradicted everything Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and the liberal intelligentsia had been saying?
(a) Nina's Letter.
(b) I Cannot Forsake Principles.
(c) History of Socialism.
(d) A Letter from a Chemistry Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to release victims of the Doctors' Plot who had been imprisoned?

2. How many index cards did Dmitri Yurosov manage to accumulate in eighteen months at the archive of the Supreme Court?

3. Remnick saw a man with no legs on his way to the Lenin Library. How was the man getting around?

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

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

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