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

2. Where did the first hunger strike in Gulag take place?
(a) At the Toblowski hospitals.
(b) On the Solovetsky Islands.
(c) In the Butyrki Prison.
(d) In the Verkhne-Uralsk camps.

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

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

5. During which decade did prisoners rarely have food due to a food shortage all across Russia?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the prisoners who were sent into exile relocated to?

2. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?

3. What did Gendelman do for a living?

4. Why wasn't Stalin's body drawn and quartered for the execution of the peasants?

5. How many days did the first hunger strike in Gulag last?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What types of prisoners were separated from the native population at Gulag?

6. Who were the sons of Gulag?

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

8. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

9. What did Lenin say to Gorky about the intelligentsia of Russia?

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

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