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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?
(a) Nikolai Krylenko.
(b) Captain Viktor Abakumov
(c) Colonel Mariyushkin.
(d) Feliks Dzerzhinsky.

2. How were prisoners treated when they spoke in their own defense at trial?
(a) They were ignored.
(b) They were mocked.
(c) They were beaten.
(d) They were honored.

3. For how long did Solzhenitsyn walk around Russia as a free man before being sent to Gulag?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Four months.
(d) Four days.

4. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Melville.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Schiller.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following forms of torture were NOT common practice during interrogations?

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

3. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?

4. Which hours of the day does Solzhenitsyn claim were the hardest?

5. How long was the standard Stalin imprisonment in Gulag?

(see the answer key)

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