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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. Under the tsar's rule, which of the following types of prisoners did NOT fill the system?
(a) Wealthy prisoners.
(b) Prominent prisoners.
(c) Violent prisoners.
(d) Former officials.

2. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1910.

3. Which of the following forms of torture were NOT common practice during interrogations?
(a) Burning prisoners with cigarettes.
(b) Dipping prisoners' feet in boiling water.
(c) Withholding food and water from prisoners.
(d) Stifling prisoners in airtight cells.

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

5. Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe the academic civilians in Russia?
(a) Rotten.
(b) Pious.
(c) Useless.
(d) Slovenly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did prisoners usually cling to the hope that their arrest has been a mistake?

3. How old was Solzhenitsyn when he used to listen to the "boring, pallid daily records" of the trials?

4. What decade is generally considered a decade of freedom to those who have studied the Gulag prison system?

5. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?

(see the answer key)

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