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

2. 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 on the sides of the car.
(d) Bunks at the bottom of the car.

3. What type of prisoner was housed in TONs?
(a) Sick prisoners.
(b) Political prisoners.
(c) Children.
(d) Violent prisoners.

4. What is another word for the trains that brought prisoners out to exile?
(a) Munditzplatz.
(b) Gallywags.
(c) Stolypins.
(d) Harishums.

5. Which of the following terms is used to describe show trials?
(a) Conflictless trials.
(b) Heavenly trials.
(c) Emancipated trials.
(d) Pontoon trials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups of men found themselves in the first show trial of the Shakhty?

2. What was the name given to the investigators whose main job was to find men to convict and send to Gulag?

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

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

5. Where did the first hunger strike in Gulag take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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