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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the judges who were brought before the Supreme Court, how many were found guilty of war crimes?
(a) None of them.
(b) All of them.
(c) Half of them.
(d) Only a handful.

2. What color were the battalions many POWs joined in exchange for food?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gold.

3. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?
(a) 1952-1953.
(b) 1945-1946.
(c) 1940-1941.
(d) 1949-1950.

4. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?
(a) He ignored them.
(b) He shook his fist at them.
(c) He smiled at them.
(d) He spit at them.

5. How long did prisoners usually cling to the hope that their arrest has been a mistake?
(a) For one week.
(b) For one year.
(c) For one month.
(d) For one day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country did Solzhenitsyn use as an example to show how the Organs justify their existence?

2. Under the tsar's rule, which of the following types of prisoners did NOT fill the system?

3. Which of the following adjectives best describes Igor Tronko?

4. How long was Chulpenyev held before being sent to the Gulag prison camps?

5. What is the name of the assassinated Soviet ambassador who had a draft named after him?

Short Essay Questions

1. While imprisoned, what did Solzhenitsyn feel about his Motherland?

2. What happened in the Gulag prison camps in 1945-1946?

3. What happened in the 1960s when 70 judges were brought before the Supreme Court to justify their actions in the Gulag trials?

4. Why couldn't interrogators be trusted to uphold the law?

5. What happened to Solzhenitsyn during his third year of University study at the NKVD?

6. What was the Cadet Party?

7. How did Solzhenitsyn feel about prison during the first few days he spends there?

8. What significant event happened on Russian soil in the autumn of 1941?

9. Why was Solzhenitsyn arrested, and what was his reaction?

10. How does Solzhenitsyn define evil?

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