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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 items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?
(a) His socks.
(b) A rubber ball.
(c) A clod of dirt.
(d) A potato.

2. How many days was a prisoner sent to punishment for if he were found guilty of unruliness?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 20 days.
(d) 15 days.

3. What did it mean to be "politically illiterate"?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Pro-torture.
(c) Unable to defend oneself in court.
(d) Anti-Soviet.

4. What color were the battalions many POWs joined in exchange for food?
(a) White.
(b) Gold.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?

2. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?

3. Which of the following items is NOT something Solzhenitsyn says prisoners were discouraged from taking to the camps with them?

4. Which of the following methods of transportation was NOT frequently used to send prisoners out to exile?

5. What was used at night when prisoners were being interrogated in the 1920s?

(see the answer key)

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