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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 facts about hunger strikes is NOT true?
(a) Hunger strikes claimed more lives than dysentery in the camps.
(b) The last hunger strike took place in 1937.
(c) Stalin called hunger strikes counter-revolutionary.
(d) Hunger strikes were made illegal in 1930.

2. How old was Solzhenitsyn when he used to listen to the "boring, pallid daily records" of the trials?
(a) 32.
(b) 42.
(c) 22.
(d) 12.

3. Which of the following groups of men found themselves in the first show trial of the Shakhty?
(a) Goat farmers.
(b) Police officers.
(c) Railroad workers.
(d) Coal miners.

4. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?
(a) Harishums.
(b) Gallywags.
(c) Munditzplatz.
(d) Stolypins.

5. Which of the following jobs was offered in exchange for food in the Gulag prison systems?
(a) Food production.
(b) Body burial.
(c) Health services.
(d) Construction work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name Vlasov synonymous with?

3. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?

4. What was Solzhenitsyn's first cell number?

5. How long was Chulpenyev held before being sent to the Gulag prison camps?

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