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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After lunch, how long were prisoners allowed to rest before returning to work?
(a) They were not allowed to rest.
(b) Two hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Three hours.

2. What is the name Vlasov synonymous with?
(a) Murderer.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Traitor.
(d) Prisoner.

3. What did Lenin call the purge through which he got rid of all those he wished to suppress?
(a) The spending purge.
(b) The hygienic purge.
(c) The gastronomical purge.
(d) The necessary purge.

4. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?
(a) "The Law Becomes a Man."
(b) "The Law as a Child."
(c) "The Law in Infancy."
(d) "The Law Matures."

5. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Solzhenitsyn claim is true about evil in the world?

3. What color were the patches worn on the shoulders of the Russian soldiers?

4. Why did Lozovsky ask to be shot during Chulpenyev's trial?

5. What did Chulpenyev do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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