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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lenin call the purge through which he got rid of all those he wished to suppress?
(a) The necessary purge.
(b) The spending purge.
(c) The hygienic purge.
(d) The gastronomical purge.

2. How many men attempted to run away from the Gulag prison system?
(a) About one in three.
(b) Nearly all.
(c) Very few.
(d) More than half.

3. What is the section number that Solzhenitsyn signed to, unknowing that this consigned him to hard labor and eternal exile?
(a) Section 13.
(b) Section 15.
(c) Section 17.
(d) Section 11.

4. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) October.
(d) July.

5. What was the name of the prison where Solzhenitsyn was sent after his arrest?
(a) Muscovite.
(b) Lubyanka.
(c) Isaevich.
(d) Archipelago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many useful measures of torture did the Gulag prison system use?

2. How long did Solzhenitsyn think he would be sentenced in Gulag?

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

4. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?

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

(see the answer key)

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