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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. Why were the peasants in Tsarskoe Selo executed?
(a) For mowing public fields.
(b) For disrespecting Stalin.
(c) For producing more salt than allowed.
(d) For stealing bread for their children.

2. Which of the following terms is used to describe show trials?
(a) Heavenly trials.
(b) Conflictless trials.
(c) Emancipated trials.
(d) Pontoon trials.

3. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?
(a) Eerie.
(b) Elevating.
(c) Corroding.
(d) Hypnotic.

4. How many civilians lived in the ground under Kotlas, a checkpoint into northeastern Russia?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 2,000.000.

5. During the new era of executions, how many men were killed in the first 16 months?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1.6 million.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is another word for archipelago?

3. Which of the following camps was known for having good barracks?

4. Which of the following preparations was NOT performed before the cattle cars were deemed fit for use for the prisoners?

5. Which of the following camps was known for having ancient, leaking toilets?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were stolypins?

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

9. In what ways did the Gulag guards attempt to prevent hunger strikes from running rampant in the prisons?

10. Who was Palchinsky?

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