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

2. Why wasn't Stalin's body drawn and quartered for the execution of the peasants?
(a) Because no one knew where Stalin was buried.
(b) Because the people begged not to disrupt his body.
(c) Because Stalin had never been found guilty of war crimes.
(d) Because Stalin had divine absolvement of all crimes.

3. Which of the following groups of workers was NOT considered a trusty in the prison system?
(a) Drill instructors.
(b) Food servers.
(c) Clerks.
(d) Bath attendants.

4. What is the name of the revolutionary that organized the early Russian courts?
(a) Kolchek.
(b) Kaiser.
(c) Krylenko.
(d) Kursky.

5. What did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?
(a) Set prisoners free.
(b) Capture escaped prisoners.
(c) Feed starving prisoners.
(d) Torture prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument did Stalin give to have the abolishment of capital punishment overturned?

2. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?

3. Who famously uttered the words, "Intelligentsia are not the nation's brains, but their excrement"?

4. What did Gendelman do for a living?

5. Which of the following topics did Gendelman get into a heated debate with Krylenko about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were stolypins?

8. How was time in Gulag measured?

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

10. What happened during the new era of executions?

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