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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Solzhenitsyn "duel" with interrogators before being sent to prison?
(a) Four months.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Four days.
(d) Four hours.

2. Which of the following items were the colors on the Russian uniform meant to represent?
(a) Courage.
(b) Peace.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Heaven.

3. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?
(a) His photographs.
(b) His notebooks.
(c) His handgun.
(d) His pamphlets.

4. What did Solzhenitsyn claim is true about evil in the world?
(a) To do evil, people must search for justice in an unjust world.
(b) To do evil, people must justify their actions.
(c) To do evil, people must ignore pain.
(d) To do evil, people must disregard humanity.

5. Which of the following facts about hunger strikes is NOT true?
(a) Stalin called hunger strikes counter-revolutionary.
(b) Hunger strikes claimed more lives than dysentery in the camps.
(c) The last hunger strike took place in 1937.
(d) Hunger strikes were made illegal in 1930.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prisons could a true son of Gulag name?

2. What did Gendelman do for a living?

3. How many procedures did Solzhenitsyn undergo before finally being sentenced?

4. How many useful measures of torture did the Gulag prison system use?

5. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?

(see the answer key)

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