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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. What was the name of the police force put into power by the government specifically used to arrest prisoners for Gulag?
(a) The Skins.
(b) The Eyes.
(c) The Organs.
(d) The Feet.

2. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?
(a) Violent offenders.
(b) Class enemies.
(c) Malingerers.
(d) Intellectuals.

3. What decade is generally considered a decade of freedom to those who have studied the Gulag prison system?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1930s.

4. What inappropriate subject did Solzhenitsyn joke about, leading to his arrest?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Communism.
(d) Russia.

5. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Schiller.
(d) Melville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under the tsar's rule, which of the following types of prisoners did NOT fill the system?

2. What did Lenin call those he wished to suppress under fear of revolt?

3. Which of the following statements best describes Solzhenitsyn's attitude toward being in prison?

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

5. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn sentenced to serve time in Gulag?

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