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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. How many days was a prisoner sent to punishment for if he were found guilty of unruliness?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 15 days.
(c) 20 days.
(d) 5 days.

2. Which of the following items was NOT used to break prisoners who attempted a hunger strike?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Boots.
(c) Fists.
(d) Clubs.

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

4. Which of the following bunks were considered the best bunks to have in the summer?
(a) Bunks at the top of the car.
(b) Bunks in the middle of the car.
(c) Bunks at the bottom of the car.
(d) Bunks on the sides of the car.

5. How far did prisoners typically have to walk on foot if they were being transported to another prison?
(a) 10-15 miles.
(b) 30-35 miles.
(c) 1-5 miles.
(d) 20-25 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following men is described as "the only Russian crazy enough to return without authorization"?

2. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?

3. Which of the following methods was NOT one prisoners used to try to figure out where they were going when being sent into exile?

4. On which anniversary of it being abolished for the first time, was capital punishment again abolished for all but military crimes?

5. Which group of soldiers turned on the Russian church, demanding all its money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

2. Who were the sons of Gulag?

3. How did the public react to Vlasov's sentencing at his trial?

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

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

6. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

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

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

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

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

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