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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Karpinsky's job after entering Moscow State University in 1947?
(a) Party leader.
(b) Propaganda man.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Politician.

2. Where was Stalin's hometown?
(a) Tbilisi.
(b) Ulyanovsk.
(c) Gori.
(d) Kazan.

3. Approximately how many prisoners died working on the Moscow-Volga Canal built from 1932 to 1937?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. Where did Stalin have his prison camps?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Kolyma.
(d) Sakhalin Island.

5. Who from the United States warned Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh of a military coup?
(a) The Secretary of State, James Baker.
(b) Attorney General,Richard L. Thornburgh.
(c) Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney.
(d) The President of the United States, George Bush.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Orwell call a KGB type organization?

3. Where was Geidar Aliyev the Party boss for two decades?

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

5. Which Russian author wrote about Sakhalin Island?

(see the answer key)

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