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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. What was the name given to the investigators whose main job was to find men to convict and send to Gulag?
(a) Architects.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Mathematicians.
(d) Plumbers.

2. How did men treat Solzhenitsyn when he was in his uniform during his arrest?
(a) With admiration.
(b) With confusion.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With apathy.

3. In 1963, how many judges were brought before the Supreme Court to defend their actions at Gulag?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 70.

4. Under the tsar's rule, which of the following types of prisoners did NOT fill the system?
(a) Violent prisoners.
(b) Prominent prisoners.
(c) Former officials.
(d) Wealthy prisoners.

5. Which of the following groups of foreigners was NOT seized when Tashkent fell short of their quota?
(a) Wealthy Italians.
(b) Chinese railway workers.
(c) Exiled Koreans.
(d) Leningrad Estonians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long was Chulpenyev held before being sent to the Gulag prison camps?

3. Of the judges who were brought before the Supreme Court, how many were found guilty of war crimes?

4. In what year did the Soviets ransack the churches in Russia, claiming victory?

5. What decade is generally considered a decade of freedom to those who have studied the Gulag prison system?

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