View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following liquids frequently made prisoners in punishment cells drunk?
(a) Hot water.
(b) Lemon juice.
(c) Urine.
(d) Rain water.

2. What nationality of men were the last to attempt a hunger strike in the Gulag prisons?
(a) Romanian.
(b) Polish.
(c) Yugoslavian.
(d) Bulgarian.

3. What did Lenin secretly enjoy framing intelligentsia as before shipping them off to Gulag?
(a) Arsonists.
(b) Spies.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Murderers.

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

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

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

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

8. Which of the following foods were prisoners allowed to eat on their way to exile?
(a) Raw meat.
(b) Cold soup.
(c) Preserved fish.
(d) Boiled eggs.

9. Which of the following is NOT a way that prisoners died while being transported from prison to prison on foot?
(a) They got dysentery from drinking swamp water.
(b) They died from dehydration.
(c) They were shot for walking too slowly.
(d) They were attacked by dogs.

10. How many prisons could a true son of Gulag name?
(a) 35.
(b) 24.
(c) 50.
(d) 10.

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

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

13. What did Gendelman do for a living?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a teacher.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a lawyer.

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

15. How many compartments were in a typical passenger car headed out to exile?
(a) 13.
(b) 17.
(c) 9.
(d) 23.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?

2. Where did the first hunger strike in Gulag take place?

3. How many civilians lived in the ground under Kotlas, a checkpoint into northeastern Russia?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 440 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample