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

2. Which of the following sections of the memoir deals with the show trials?
(a) "The Law Becomes a Man."
(b) "The Law in Infancy."
(c) "The Law Matures."
(d) "The Law as a Child."

3. What did Gulag prisoners steal from unsuspecting guards in the revolt of 1952?
(a) Their guns.
(b) Their wives.
(c) Their uniforms.
(d) Their shoes.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms was used to describe prisoners just arriving to exile?

2. Which of the following crimes is NOT mentioned by Solzhenitsyn as a crime punishable by death?

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

4. What is the only article of clothing prisoners in the punishment cells were allowed to wear?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

5. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

6. How were toilet trips managed when transporting passengers?

7. What were stolypins?

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

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

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

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