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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1920.

2. Which of the following actions is the Central Executive Committee of the Russian government NOT allowed to do?
(a) Give prisoners lighter sentences.
(b) Pardon prisoners.
(c) Send prisoners to punishment camps.
(d) Execute prisoners.

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

4. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?
(a) Gallywags.
(b) Munditzplatz.
(c) Stolypins.
(d) Harishums.

5. Which of the following groups of workers was NOT considered a trusty in the prison system?
(a) Food servers.
(b) Clerks.
(c) Drill instructors.
(d) Bath attendants.

6. Which of the following prisons was considered to be the center of Gulag?
(a) Cheka.
(b) Kolyman.
(c) Lubyanka.
(d) Krasnaya Presnya.

7. Which of the following camps was known for being lice ridden?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Irkutsk.
(c) Vologda.
(d) Usman.

8. What does Solzhenitsyn claim happens to a person when he "lives in a graveyard"?
(a) He ceases to weep.
(b) He ceases to live.
(c) He ceases to love.
(d) He ceases to hope.

9. What color were the cattle cars that transported prisoners throughout Gulag?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

10. In Zihma, what did prisoners being transported on foot use as nets to catch fish in the river?
(a) Leaves woven together.
(b) Their socks.
(c) Their trousers.
(d) Their own hair.

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

12. Which of the following crimes is NOT mentioned by Solzhenitsyn as a crime punishable by death?
(a) Accidentally starting a fire.
(b) Public drunkenness.
(c) Hitting a police officer's horse.
(d) Not trimming the hedges in one's yard.

13. Which of the following items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?
(a) His socks.
(b) A rubber ball.
(c) A potato.
(d) A clod of dirt.

14. How many days was a prisoner sent to punishment for if he were found guilty of unruliness?
(a) 20 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 15 days.
(d) 10 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the revolutionary that organized the early Russian courts?

2. What argument did Stalin give to have the abolishment of capital punishment overturned?

3. Who were Zeks?

4. What did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?

5. Which of the following medical conditions did Lenin suffer from in 1922?

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