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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. What color were the battalions many POWs joined in exchange for food?
(a) Gold.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

2. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?
(a) His handgun.
(b) His notebooks.
(c) His photographs.
(d) His pamphlets.

3. Which of the following monsters did Solzhenitsyn compare Borsch to when he saw him at the medical hospital in camp?
(a) A werewolf.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A mummy.

4. Which of the following armies was both Solzhenitsyn and Tronko prepared to join in 1941?
(a) The Black Army.
(b) The Red Army.
(c) The White Army.
(d) The Blue Army.

5. What was the name given to the investigators whose main job was to find men to convict and send to Gulag?
(a) Engineers.
(b) Architects.
(c) Plumbers.
(d) Mathematicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following foods were prisoners allowed to eat on their way to exile?

2. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?

3. Which of the following forms of torture were NOT common practice during interrogations?

4. How many defendants were a part of the first show trial in Russian history?

5. Which of the following items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?

(see the answer key)

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