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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements best describes Solzhenitsyn's attitude toward being in prison?
(a) Prison was a blank slate with no chalk.
(b) Prison was mind numbing pain.
(c) Prison was the turning point in his life.
(d) Prison was an abyss.

2. Which of the following groups of foreigners was NOT seized when Tashkent fell short of their quota?
(a) Wealthy Italians.
(b) Chinese railway workers.
(c) Exiled Koreans.
(d) Leningrad Estonians.

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

4. Which hours of the day does Solzhenitsyn claim were the hardest?
(a) The last two hours.
(b) The first two hours.
(c) The two middle hours.
(d) Every hour was equally terrible.

5. In what year did the Soviets ransack the churches in Russia, claiming victory?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the assassinated Soviet ambassador who had a draft named after him?

2. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?

3. How many hours a day does Solzhenitsyn claim were of no note?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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