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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 prisons could a true son of Gulag name?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 24.
(d) 35.

2. Which of the following activities could get a person sent to the punishment camps in TON?
(a) Coughing.
(b) Scratching.
(c) Belching.
(d) Spitting.

3. What did Gendelman do for a living?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a teacher.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a lawyer.

4. Which group of soldiers turned on the Russian church, demanding all its money?
(a) The SRs.
(b) The Militia.
(c) The Turncoats.
(d) The Bolsheviks.

5. Which of the following preparations was NOT performed before the cattle cars were deemed fit for use for the prisoners?
(a) They were swept clean.
(b) Drains were cut into the floors.
(c) Ceilings were tested for strength.
(d) Bars were put over the windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lenin secretly enjoy framing intelligentsia as before shipping them off to Gulag?

2. How many days did the first hunger strike in Gulag last?

3. Which of the following groups of prisoners was NOT sent to its own secret prisons in Gulag?

4. Which of the following camps was known for having bricked-over windows?

5. Which of the following camps was known for having good barracks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Palchinsky?

4. How was time in Gulag measured?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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