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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. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn sentenced to serve time in Gulag?
(a) November.
(b) August.
(c) May.
(d) January.

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

3. What country does Solzhenitsyn view as his motherland?
(a) Russia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Persia.

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

5. Which of the following groups of men found themselves in the first show trial of the Shakhty?
(a) Goat farmers.
(b) Railroad workers.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Coal miners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did guards transporting prisoners to exile typically steal from them?

2. Which of the following words was prison slang for execution?

3. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?

4. Which of the following facts about hunger strikes is NOT true?

5. What subject were many of the POWs imprisoned for discussing?

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