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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following facts about hunger strikes is NOT true?
(a) The last hunger strike took place in 1937.
(b) Hunger strikes claimed more lives than dysentery in the camps.
(c) Stalin called hunger strikes counter-revolutionary.
(d) Hunger strikes were made illegal in 1930.

2. What argument did Stalin give to have the abolishment of capital punishment overturned?
(a) Execution is a means of social defense.
(b) Execution is an opiate of the masses.
(c) Execution is man's divine right.
(d) Execution is legal terror.

3. Which of the following methods of transportation was NOT frequently used to send prisoners out to exile?
(a) Horse carts.
(b) Boats.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Foot marches.

4. Which of the following words was prison slang for execution?
(a) Time.
(b) Health.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Super.

5. How long did a typical bathroom break last when there were 120 prisoners who needed to go?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 30 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Vlasov synonymous with?

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

3. During what year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?

4. How old was Igor Tronko when Solzhenitsyn met him?

5. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?

(see the answer key)

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