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

2. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?
(a) Melville.
(b) Schiller.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dickens.

3. What was the name given to the guard who was in charge of waking the prisoners up in the morning?
(a) The doorknock.
(b) The breaksleep.
(c) The alarmsound.
(d) The turnkey.

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

5. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?
(a) Class enemies.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Violent offenders.
(d) Malingerers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which hours of the day does Solzhenitsyn claim were the hardest?

3. What color were the patches worn on the shoulders of the Russian soldiers?

4. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?

5. Why did the Russian government kill and imprison its people, according to Solzhenitsyn?

(see the answer key)

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