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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color were the patches worn on the shoulders of the Russian soldiers?
(a) Silver.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

2. What country does Solzhenitsyn view as his motherland?
(a) Persia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Bulgaria.

3. Why did the Russian government kill and imprison its people, according to Solzhenitsyn?
(a) To cleanse their society.
(b) To prevent them from revolting in the future.
(c) To ensure only the high society reproduce.
(d) To punish them for their crimes.

4. What did prisoners say was the common sentence for doing nothing?
(a) Life.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 25 years.

5. During what month of the year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?
(a) July.
(b) February.
(c) October.
(d) May.

6. What subject were many of the POWs imprisoned for discussing?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Revolution.
(c) America.
(d) Europe.

7. What is the section number that Solzhenitsyn signed to, unknowing that this consigned him to hard labor and eternal exile?
(a) Section 11.
(b) Section 13.
(c) Section 17.
(d) Section 15.

8. Which of the following groups of foreigners was NOT seized when Tashkent fell short of their quota?
(a) Exiled Koreans.
(b) Leningrad Estonians.
(c) Chinese railway workers.
(d) Wealthy Italians.

9. How long did Solzhenitsyn think he would be sentenced in Gulag?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 5 years.

10. How were prisoners treated when they spoke in their own defense at trial?
(a) They were honored.
(b) They were ignored.
(c) They were beaten.
(d) They were mocked.

11. On what date does the war end in Russia?
(a) June 7.
(b) May 9.
(c) April 8.
(d) July 4.

12. Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe Solzhenitsyn's attitude during his interrogation?
(a) Honest.
(b) Naive.
(c) Humble.
(d) Afraid.

13. How long was Lozovsky sentenced to serve in Gulag?
(a) 13 years.
(b) 27 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) Life.

14. During what year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1945.

15. What is the acronym for the school where Solzhenitsyn studied?
(a) MQOR.
(b) KRSO.
(c) YBKW.
(d) NKVD.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did relatives furiously try to pack when their family members were arrested?

2. Which of the following adjectives best describes Igor Tronko?

3. What did Lenin call the purge through which he got rid of all those he wished to suppress?

4. How many useful measures of torture did the Gulag prison system use?

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

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