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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1918.

2. What is another word for archipelago?
(a) Force.
(b) Chain.
(c) Terror.
(d) Camp.

3. What did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?
(a) Set prisoners free.
(b) Feed starving prisoners.
(c) Capture escaped prisoners.
(d) Torture prisoners.

4. What did Gulag prisoners steal from unsuspecting guards in the revolt of 1952?
(a) Their wives.
(b) Their guns.
(c) Their shoes.
(d) Their uniforms.

5. How many defendants were a part of the first show trial in Russian history?
(a) 47.
(b) 33.
(c) 53.
(d) 12.

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

7. What argument did Stalin give to have the abolishment of capital punishment overturned?
(a) Execution is man's divine right.
(b) Execution is an opiate of the masses.
(c) Execution is legal terror.
(d) Execution is a means of social defense.

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 hope.
(d) He ceases to love.

9. How was time at Gulag measured?
(a) In years.
(b) In deaths.
(c) In weeks.
(d) In decades.

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

11. In the years 1945-1946, how many prisoners were dying every day in every camp of Gulag?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 5.
(d) 50.

12. How old was Solzhenitsyn when he used to listen to the "boring, pallid daily records" of the trials?
(a) 12.
(b) 42.
(c) 22.
(d) 32.

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

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

15. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?
(a) Four years.
(b) Four days.
(c) Four months.
(d) Four weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did the first hunger strike in Gulag last?

2. Which of the following is NOT a way that prisoners died while being transported from prison to prison on foot?

3. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?

4. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?

5. How long did a typical bathroom break last when there were 120 prisoners who needed to go?

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