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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. Which of the following terms was used to describe prisoners just arriving to exile?
(a) Novices.
(b) Babies.
(c) Suckers.
(d) Greenhorns.

2. Which of the following items is NOT something Solzhenitsyn says prisoners were discouraged from taking to the camps with them?
(a) Boots.
(b) Nice clothes.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Suitcases.

3. Which of the following bunks were considered the best bunks to have in the summer?
(a) Bunks at the bottom of the car.
(b) Bunks in the middle of the car.
(c) Bunks at the top of the car.
(d) Bunks on the sides of the car.

4. When forming a line for drinking water, which of the following prisoners were allowed to drink first from the common cup?
(a) The youngest prisoners.
(b) The healthiest prisoners.
(c) The oldest prisoners.
(d) The weakest prisoners.

5. Which of the following phrases was often chalked on the sides of the cattle cars used to transport prisoners?
(a) "Hollywood or Bust."
(b) "God Save the Queen."
(c) "Fragile."
(d) "Perishable Goods."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups of men found themselves in the first show trial of the Shakhty?

2. What did Gulag prisoners steal from unsuspecting guards in the revolt of 1952?

3. Which of the following prisons was considered to be the center of Gulag?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

3. What surprises in the camps did prisoners remember that shocked their systems upon arrival?

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

5. What changed about capital punishment after the revolt of 1952 in the Gulag prisons?

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

7. What were stolypins?

8. What was the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?

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

10. When and where did the first Gulag hunger strike occur?

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