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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms was used to describe prisoners just arriving to exile?
(a) Greenhorns.
(b) Suckers.
(c) Novices.
(d) Babies.

2. How many days did the first hunger strike in Gulag last?
(a) 15 days.
(b) 21 days.
(c) 9 days.
(d) 27 days.

3. Which group of soldiers turned on the Russian church, demanding all its money?
(a) The Militia.
(b) The Turncoats.
(c) The SRs.
(d) The Bolsheviks.

4. Who were Zeks?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Guards.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Prisoners.

5. 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.

6. Which of the following items is NOT something Solzhenitsyn says prisoners were discouraged from taking to the camps with them?
(a) Suitcases.
(b) Boots.
(c) Nice clothes.
(d) Photographs.

7. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) Celebrities.
(d) Women.

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

9. Which of the following words was prison slang for execution?
(a) Health.
(b) Sheets.
(c) Time.
(d) Super.

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

11. How long did the Bolsheviks struggle to overthrow the tsar?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 20 years.

12. What is the abbreviated acronym for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?
(a) ARCEC.
(b) VTsIK.
(c) GULAG.
(d) KWyBZ.

13. What did prisoners frequently write down when they were lucky enough to find a scrap of paper and a pencil?
(a) Their social security numbers.
(b) Their names.
(c) Their telephone numbers.
(d) Their addresses.

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

15. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?
(a) Hypnotic.
(b) Elevating.
(c) Eerie.
(d) Corroding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe the academic civilians in Russia?

2. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?

3. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?

4. Which of the following camps was known for having good barracks?

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

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