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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only article of clothing prisoners in the punishment cells were allowed to wear?
(a) A shirt.
(b) Trousers.
(c) Underwear.
(d) Shoes.

2. Where did the first hunger strike in Gulag take place?
(a) At the Toblowski hospitals.
(b) In the Butyrki Prison.
(c) In the Verkhne-Uralsk camps.
(d) On the Solovetsky Islands.

3. Where were the prisoners who were sent into exile relocated to?
(a) Romania.
(b) Bavaria.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Siberia.

4. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?
(a) Feliks Dzerzhinsky.
(b) Captain Viktor Abakumov
(c) Nikolai Krylenko.
(d) Colonel Mariyushkin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following bunks were considered the best bunks to have in the summer?

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

3. How many men attempted to run away from the Gulag prison system?

4. Which of the following camps was known for being lice ridden?

5. In Zihma, what did prisoners being transported on foot use as nets to catch fish in the river?

(see the answer key)

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