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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. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?
(a) On trains.
(b) In cars.
(c) On horseback.
(d) By foot.

2. Which country is the Russian army retreating from in 1941?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) China.
(d) Germany.

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

4. Who famously uttered the words, "Intelligentsia are not the nation's brains, but their excrement"?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Solzhenitsyn.
(d) Lenin.

5. Why wasn't Stalin's body drawn and quartered for the execution of the peasants?
(a) Because Stalin had divine absolvement of all crimes.
(b) Because the people begged not to disrupt his body.
(c) Because Stalin had never been found guilty of war crimes.
(d) Because no one knew where Stalin was buried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?

2. Which country did Solzhenitsyn use as an example to show how the Organs justify their existence?

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

4. How many hours a day does Solzhenitsyn claim were of no note?

5. What is the name of the assassinated Soviet ambassador who had a draft named after him?

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