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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 items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?
(a) His notebooks.
(b) His photographs.
(c) His handgun.
(d) His pamphlets.

2. How many useful measures of torture did the Gulag prison system use?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 40.

3. What color were the patches worn on the shoulders of the Russian soldiers?
(a) Blue.
(b) Silver.
(c) Red.
(d) Purple.

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

5. What is the acronym for the school where Solzhenitsyn studied?
(a) MQOR.
(b) KRSO.
(c) NKVD.
(d) YBKW.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did relatives furiously try to pack when their family members were arrested?

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

3. How many former POWs was Solzhenitsyn celled with during his first arrest?

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

5. How many peasants were members of the TKP?

(see the answer key)

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