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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times did Solzhenitsyn enjoy the freedoms of "the special convoy"?
(a) Three times.
(b) Two times.
(c) Once.
(d) Four times.

2. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?
(a) Harishums.
(b) Stolypins.
(c) Munditzplatz.
(d) Gallywags.

3. When capital punishment was abolished, what was the only court system allowed to sentence defendants to death?
(a) Supreme court.
(b) Divorce court.
(c) Military court.
(d) Judicial court.

4. Which of the following means of death was far scarier, and more often an occurrence, to prisoners living in Rostov-on-the-Don in the 1920s?
(a) Being buried alive.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Decapitation.
(d) Poisoning.

5. Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe Solzhenitsyn's attitude during his interrogation?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Naive.
(c) Honest.
(d) Humble.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?

2. What did Lenin call the purge through which he got rid of all those he wished to suppress?

3. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?

4. How many defendants were a part of the first show trial in Russian history?

5. How long did Solzhenitsyn think he would be sentenced in Gulag?

(see the answer key)

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