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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn sentenced to serve time in Gulag?
(a) January.
(b) August.
(c) November.
(d) May.

2. How many procedures did Solzhenitsyn undergo before finally being sentenced?
(a) 132.
(b) 206.
(c) 375.
(d) 88.

3. Which country did Solzhenitsyn use as an example to show how the Organs justify their existence?
(a) Prussia.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Romania.

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

5. What decade is generally considered a decade of freedom to those who have studied the Gulag prison system?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1920s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?

2. What typically happened to a house after its owner was arrested?

3. What did prisoners say was the common sentence for doing nothing?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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