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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following forms of torture were NOT common practice during interrogations?
(a) Stifling prisoners in airtight cells.
(b) Burning prisoners with cigarettes.
(c) Withholding food and water from prisoners.
(d) Dipping prisoners' feet in boiling water.

2. During what year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1935.

3. What was the name of the political party put into place by the tsar?
(a) The Leader Party.
(b) The Scout Party.
(c) The Cadet Party.
(d) The Soldier Party.

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

5. What did Solzhenitsyn claim is true about evil in the world?
(a) To do evil, people must search for justice in an unjust world.
(b) To do evil, people must disregard humanity.
(c) To do evil, people must justify their actions.
(d) To do evil, people must ignore pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?

2. What type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?

3. What did Lenin call those he wished to suppress under fear of revolt?

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

5. How long was the standard Stalin imprisonment in Gulag?

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