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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 is the name of the assassinated Soviet ambassador who had a draft named after him?
(a) Putin.
(b) Voikov.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Cherkov.

2. What did guards transporting prisoners to exile typically steal from them?
(a) Their water.
(b) Their clothing.
(c) Their food.
(d) Their shoes.

3. What did Chulpenyev do for a living?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a soldier.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a lawyer.

4. What did Solzhenitsyn claim is true about evil in the world?
(a) To do evil, people must search for justice in an unjust world.
(b) To do evil, people must justify their actions.
(c) To do evil, people must disregard humanity.
(d) To do evil, people must ignore pain.

5. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?
(a) "The Law in Infancy."
(b) "The Law Matures."
(c) "The Law Becomes a Man."
(d) "The Law as a Child."

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality of men were the last to attempt a hunger strike in the Gulag prisons?

2. Why were the peasants in Tsarskoe Selo executed?

3. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?

4. How long was the standard Stalin imprisonment in Gulag?

5. On which anniversary of it being abolished for the first time, was capital punishment again abolished for all but military crimes?

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