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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?
(a) A clod of dirt.
(b) A potato.
(c) His socks.
(d) A rubber ball.

2. How long was Chulpenyev held before being sent to the Gulag prison camps?
(a) One week.
(b) One day.
(c) One month.
(d) One year.

3. What argument did Stalin give to have the abolishment of capital punishment overturned?
(a) Execution is legal terror.
(b) Execution is man's divine right.
(c) Execution is a means of social defense.
(d) Execution is an opiate of the masses.

4. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?
(a) Homosexuals.
(b) Celebrities.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Women.

5. How many former POWs was Solzhenitsyn celled with during his first arrest?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?

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

4. What did Gulag prisoners steal from unsuspecting guards in the revolt of 1952?

5. What did Lenin call those he wished to suppress under fear of revolt?

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