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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 type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?
(a) Cells filled with biting ants.
(b) Freezing cold cells.
(c) Excruciatingly tiny cells.
(d) Massive cement cells.

2. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?
(a) 1945-1946.
(b) 1952-1953.
(c) 1949-1950.
(d) 1940-1941.

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

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

5. What is the name of the assassinated Soviet ambassador who had a draft named after him?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Cherkov.
(c) Putin.
(d) Voikov.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peasants were members of the TKP?

2. What was the name of the political party put into place by the tsar?

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

4. What decade is generally considered a decade of freedom to those who have studied the Gulag prison system?

5. How many procedures did Solzhenitsyn undergo before finally being sentenced?

(see the answer key)

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