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

2. During what decade did hunger strikes spike in popularity?
(a) In the 1940s.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) In the 1930s.
(d) In the 1920s.

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

4. How far did prisoners typically have to walk on foot if they were being transported to another prison?
(a) 1-5 miles.
(b) 20-25 miles.
(c) 10-15 miles.
(d) 30-35 miles.

5. Which of the following camps was known for having bricked-over windows?
(a) Irkutsk.
(b) Vologda.
(c) Usman.
(d) Novosibirsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the new era of executions, how many men were killed in the first 16 months?

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

3. What did it mean to be "politically illiterate"?

4. Which of the following intangible items did Lenin legalize in 1922?

5. How many days was a prisoner sent to punishment for if he were found guilty of unruliness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was in charge of preparing stolypins for prisoner use, and how were the stolypins prepared?

2. Which prisons in the Gulag network does Solzhenitsyn remember living in as a prisoner?

3. Why were six peasants shot in Tsarskoe Selo, and what was the response from the public?

4. How was time in Gulag measured?

5. For what offenses could prisoners be sent to the punishment cells?

6. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

7. Why did women sometimes go crazy when they found a scrap of paper in the transit camps?

8. How did the public react to Vlasov's sentencing at his trial?

9. Who was Palchinsky?

10. What did prisoners eat when they were being transported from one prison to another?

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