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

2. What did Chulpenyev do for a living?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a teacher.

3. How many hours a day does Solzhenitsyn claim were of no note?
(a) 8 hours a day.
(b) 16 hours a day.
(c) 12 hours a day.
(d) 24 hours a day.

4. Which of the following activities was NOT part of the prisoners' morning routine?
(a) Jumping out of bed when the bell rang.
(b) Making their beds.
(c) Eating a meager breakfast of gruel.
(d) Sitting down and thinking about their ruined lives.

5. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?
(a) He ignored them.
(b) He spit at them.
(c) He shook his fist at them.
(d) He smiled at them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the political party put into place by the tsar?

2. Which of the following terms is used to describe show trials?

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

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

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

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