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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items were the colors on the Russian uniform meant to represent?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Courage.
(c) Peace.
(d) Wealth.

2. What type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?
(a) Excruciatingly tiny cells.
(b) Cells filled with biting ants.
(c) Freezing cold cells.
(d) Massive cement cells.

3. How many former POWs was Solzhenitsyn celled with during his first arrest?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

4. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?
(a) 1949-1950.
(b) 1952-1953.
(c) 1940-1941.
(d) 1945-1946.

5. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?
(a) His pamphlets.
(b) His notebooks.
(c) His handgun.
(d) His photographs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following activities was NOT part of the prisoners' morning routine?

3. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?

4. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?

5. How long was the standard Stalin imprisonment in Gulag?

(see the answer key)

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