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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1930.

2. What did guards transporting prisoners to exile typically steal from them?
(a) Their shoes.
(b) Their water.
(c) Their food.
(d) Their clothing.

3. Where were the prisoners who were sent into exile relocated to?
(a) Bavaria.
(b) Romania.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Siberia.

4. How long does Solzhenitsyn claim it took before life in Gulag becomes bearable?
(a) Life in Gulag never becomes bearable.
(b) One year.
(c) One week.
(d) One month.

5. Which of the following words was prison slang for execution?
(a) Health.
(b) Time.
(c) Super.
(d) Sheets.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?

2. Which of the following methods was NOT one prisoners used to try to figure out where they were going when being sent into exile?

3. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?

4. What is the abbreviated acronym for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?

5. What was the name given to the investigators whose main job was to find men to convict and send to Gulag?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Palchinsky?

2. Who was in charge of preparing stolypins for prisoner use, and how were the stolypins prepared?

3. What changed about capital punishment after the revolt of 1952 in the Gulag prisons?

4. What did Lenin say to Gorky about the intelligentsia of Russia?

5. When and where did the first Gulag hunger strike occur?

6. How did the public react to Vlasov's sentencing at his trial?

7. What happened during the new era of executions?

8. What happened in the trial of Shakhty?

9. Why were six peasants shot in Tsarskoe Selo, and what was the response from the public?

10. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

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