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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 camps was known for having ancient, leaking toilets?
(a) Usman.
(b) Irkutsk.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Vologda.

2. How many civilians lived in the ground under Kotlas, a checkpoint into northeastern Russia?
(a) 2,000.000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 2,000.

3. When forming a line for drinking water, which of the following prisoners were allowed to drink first from the common cup?
(a) The youngest prisoners.
(b) The healthiest prisoners.
(c) The oldest prisoners.
(d) The weakest prisoners.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Zeks?

2. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?

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

4. What did it mean to be "politically illiterate"?

5. Which of the following groups of workers was NOT considered a trusty in the prison system?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What major change did Lenin make to the law right before he suffered his first stroke?

5. Why did women sometimes go crazy when they found a scrap of paper in the transit camps?

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

7. Who were the sons of Gulag?

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

9. What happened in the trial of Shakhty?

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

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