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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. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?
(a) In cars.
(b) On trains.
(c) By foot.
(d) On horseback.

2. How long was Chulpenyev held before being sent to the Gulag prison camps?
(a) One day.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) One week.

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

4. What was the name of the prison where Solzhenitsyn was sent after his arrest?
(a) Lubyanka.
(b) Muscovite.
(c) Isaevich.
(d) Archipelago.

5. What typically happened to a house after its owner was arrested?
(a) It was ransacked.
(b) It was put back on the market.
(c) It was burned.
(d) It was boarded up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following jobs was offered in exchange for food in the Gulag prison systems?

2. Which of the following groups of people was NOT considered dangerous by Lenin?

3. How were prisoners treated when they spoke in their own defense at trial?

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

5. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the hygienic purge?

2. How long did trials at the height of Gulag last for civilian prisoners?

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

4. Who was the German civilian present on the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested?

5. How did families typically react when they saw a family member arrested?

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

7. How does Solzhenitsyn define evil?

8. What was the Section 11 paperwork that Solzhenitsyn signed during his interrogation?

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

10. Who were the organs?

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