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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?
(a) 1945-1946.
(b) 1940-1941.
(c) 1949-1950.
(d) 1952-1953.

2. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1918.

3. What country does Solzhenitsyn view as his motherland?
(a) Poland.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Russia.
(d) Persia.

4. What is the name Vlasov synonymous with?
(a) Traitor.
(b) Murderer.
(c) Prisoner.
(d) Soldier.

5. How long did most men survive in the Gulag prison systems before being executed?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Three years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following monsters did Solzhenitsyn compare Borsch to when he saw him at the medical hospital in camp?

2. Why wasn't Stalin's body drawn and quartered for the execution of the peasants?

3. How long did the Bolsheviks struggle to overthrow the tsar?

4. Who famously uttered the words, "Intelligentsia are not the nation's brains, but their excrement"?

5. How long did Solzhenitsyn think he would be sentenced in Gulag?

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