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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 liquids frequently made prisoners in punishment cells drunk?
(a) Hot water.
(b) Urine.
(c) Rain water.
(d) Lemon juice.

2. When forming a line for drinking water, which of the following prisoners were allowed to drink first from the common cup?
(a) The healthiest prisoners.
(b) The youngest prisoners.
(c) The oldest prisoners.
(d) The weakest prisoners.

3. Who famously uttered the words, "Intelligentsia are not the nation's brains, but their excrement"?
(a) Solzhenitsyn.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Lenin.

4. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?
(a) Eerie.
(b) Elevating.
(c) Hypnotic.
(d) Corroding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?

2. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?

3. On what date does the war end in Russia?

4. What is the abbreviated acronym for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?

5. During which decade did prisoners rarely have food due to a food shortage all across Russia?

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