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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. In Zihma, what did prisoners being transported on foot use as nets to catch fish in the river?
(a) Their trousers.
(b) Leaves woven together.
(c) Their socks.
(d) Their own hair.

2. Which of the following liquids frequently made prisoners in punishment cells drunk?
(a) Urine.
(b) Rain water.
(c) Hot water.
(d) Lemon juice.

3. Which of the following words was prison slang for execution?
(a) Super.
(b) Time.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Health.

4. When capital punishment was abolished, what was the only court system allowed to sentence defendants to death?
(a) Judicial court.
(b) Divorce court.
(c) Military court.
(d) Supreme court.

5. Which of the following methods was NOT one prisoners used to try to figure out where they were going when being sent into exile?
(a) Stealing glances at street signs through cracks in the wood.
(b) Marking the position of the sun.
(c) Asking other exiled prisoners for clues.
(d) Sneaking maps in with their folded clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following bunks were considered the best bunks to have in the summer?

2. What did Gendelman do for a living?

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

4. How was time at Gulag measured?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Palchinsky?

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

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

5. How did prisoners figure out where they were being relocated, particularly when being sent into exile?

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

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

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

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

10. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

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