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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. What is another word for archipelago?
(a) Force.
(b) Camp.
(c) Chain.
(d) Terror.

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

3. How long does Solzhenitsyn claim it took before life in Gulag becomes bearable?
(a) One week.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Life in Gulag never becomes bearable.

4. Which of the following phrases was often chalked on the sides of the cattle cars used to transport prisoners?
(a) "God Save the Queen."
(b) "Hollywood or Bust."
(c) "Fragile."
(d) "Perishable Goods."

5. Which of the following topics did Gendelman get into a heated debate with Krylenko about?
(a) Ignoring justice.
(b) Torturing witnesses.
(c) Tampering with evidence.
(d) Bribing judges.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many prisons could a true son of Gulag name?

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

4. How long did a typical bathroom break last when there were 120 prisoners who needed to go?

5. How many defendants were a part of the first show trial in Russian history?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened in the trial of Shakhty?

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

4. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

5. What happened during the new era of executions?

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

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

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

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

10. What was the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?

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