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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 was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?
(a) His socks.
(b) A potato.
(c) A clod of dirt.
(d) A rubber ball.

2. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?
(a) Homosexuals.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Women.
(d) Celebrities.

3. Which of the following men is described as "the only Russian crazy enough to return without authorization"?
(a) Savinkov.
(b) Ratikov.
(c) Putinov.
(d) Gorbechov.

4. In what year was capital punishment abolished in the courts?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1930.

5. How long did the Bolsheviks struggle to overthrow the tsar?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 40 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups of men found themselves in the first show trial of the Shakhty?

2. Which of the following medical conditions did Lenin suffer from in 1922?

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

4. What does Solzhenitsyn claim happens to a person when he "lives in a graveyard"?

5. Which of the following activities could get a person sent to the punishment camps in TON?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

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

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

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

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