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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 foods were prisoners allowed to eat on their way to exile?
(a) Boiled eggs.
(b) Raw meat.
(c) Preserved fish.
(d) Cold soup.

2. Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe the academic civilians in Russia?
(a) Rotten.
(b) Pious.
(c) Slovenly.
(d) Useless.

3. Which group of soldiers turned on the Russian church, demanding all its money?
(a) The Bolsheviks.
(b) The SRs.
(c) The Militia.
(d) The Turncoats.

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

5. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?
(a) Four months.
(b) Four years.
(c) Four days.
(d) Four weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When capital punishment was abolished, what was the only court system allowed to sentence defendants to death?

3. Which of the following camps was known for being lice ridden?

4. After Krylenko's trial, how many men were spared death by execution?

5. Which of the following crimes is NOT mentioned by Solzhenitsyn as a crime punishable by death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

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

3. What was Vlasov put on trial for in the last of Russia's open trials?

4. What happened during the new era of executions?

5. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

6. What were stolypins?

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

8. Why did the Bolshevik Army turn on the church, and what do it get in return?

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

10. How was time in Gulag measured?

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