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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 did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?
(a) Bums.
(b) Dead men.
(c) Tramps.
(d) Riffraff.

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

3. Which of the following topics did Gendelman get into a heated debate with Krylenko about?
(a) Torturing witnesses.
(b) Tampering with evidence.
(c) Ignoring justice.
(d) Bribing judges.

4. Which of the following intangible items did Lenin legalize in 1922?
(a) Faith.
(b) Hope.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Terror.

5. What did prisoners frequently write down when they were lucky enough to find a scrap of paper and a pencil?
(a) Their social security numbers.
(b) Their telephone numbers.
(c) Their addresses.
(d) Their names.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?

2. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?

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

4. What was the name given to the investigators whose main job was to find men to convict and send to Gulag?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were stolypins?

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

3. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

4. Who was Palchinsky?

5. How did the peasants of Kotlas live after a Gulag prison was set up on their land in 1938?

6. How was time in Gulag measured?

7. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

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

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

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

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