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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting for the books Journey into the Whirlwind and The Burn.
(a) Moscow.
(b) Magadan.
(c) Klyuchi.
(d) Kharovsk.

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

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

4. To whom did some followers compare Father Aleksandr Men?
(a) Nevsky.
(b) Sakharov.
(c) Kashpirovsky.
(d) Gorbachev.

5. How did Gorbachev deal with people like Sakharov who kept criticizing the congress?
(a) Turned off the microphone and had him sit down.
(b) Would not allow Sakharov to return to the congress the next day.
(c) Called on a party supporter to speak instead.
(d) Had Sakharov removed from the building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American movie was shown to students at the Moscow Higher Party School?

2. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

3. Why did democratic leader Anatoly Sobchak have a picture of Lenin in his office?

4. How many Polish officers were killed every night for a month in April of 1940?

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

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