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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. How long were e the leisurely walks Solzhenitsyn was allowed to take each morning that he was in prison?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 60 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

2. Which of the following food items was frequently served to the prisoners for lunch?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Bread.
(c) Soup.
(d) Cheese.

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

4. Which of the following topics did Gendelman get into a heated debate with Krylenko about?
(a) Ignoring justice.
(b) Tampering with evidence.
(c) Torturing witnesses.
(d) Bribing judges.

5. Which of the following activities could get a person sent to the punishment camps in TON?
(a) Belching.
(b) Scratching.
(c) Coughing.
(d) Spitting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?

2. How long did Solzhenitsyn spend in cell 75 before gradually moving his way to a window cell?

3. Which of the following groups of foreigners was NOT seized when Tashkent fell short of their quota?

4. In what year did the Soviets ransack the churches in Russia, claiming victory?

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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