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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the only article of clothing prisoners in the punishment cells were allowed to wear?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Trousers.
(c) Underwear.
(d) A shirt.

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

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

8. After Krylenko's trial, how many men were spared death by execution?
(a) 14.
(b) 24.
(c) 34.
(d) 44.

9. What type of prisoner was housed in TONs?
(a) Violent prisoners.
(b) Sick prisoners.
(c) Children.
(d) Political prisoners.

10. Which of the following camps was known for having good barracks?
(a) Vologda.
(b) Irkutsk.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Usman.

11. Which of the following camps was known for having ancient, leaking toilets?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Usman.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Vologda.

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

13. 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.

14. Which of the following methods of transportation was NOT frequently used to send prisoners out to exile?
(a) Foot marches.
(b) Boats.
(c) Horse carts.
(d) Automobiles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?

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

4. Who were Zeks?

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

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