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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 did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?
(a) Feed starving prisoners.
(b) Set prisoners free.
(c) Capture escaped prisoners.
(d) Torture prisoners.

2. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?
(a) Bums.
(b) Riffraff.
(c) Tramps.
(d) Dead men.

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

4. What did it mean to be "politically illiterate"?
(a) Anti-Soviet.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Pro-torture.
(d) Unable to defend oneself in court.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many civilians lived in the ground under Kotlas, a checkpoint into northeastern Russia?

2. What did Gendelman do for a living?

3. When forming a line for drinking water, which of the following prisoners were allowed to drink first from the common cup?

4. Which of the following items was used to gag a prisoner in Gulag before he was executed?

5. What did Gulag prisoners steal from unsuspecting guards in the revolt of 1952?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were stolypins?

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

6. Who were the sons of Gulag?

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

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

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

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

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