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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?

2. How many times per month were prisoners allowed to write petitions for their freedom from the prisons?

3. How long did Solzhenitsyn "duel" with interrogators before being sent to prison?

4. Where did Solzhenitsyn meet Igor Tronko?

5. Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe Solzhenitsyn's attitude during his interrogation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long did trials at the height of Gulag last for civilian prisoners?

2. How did Solzhenitsyn feel about prison during the first few days he spends there?

3. In what ways did interrogators try to intimidate prisoners in the early 1920s?

4. What reason does Solzhenitsyn give for the mass arrests that were sweeping through Russia during the time of Gulag's height?

5. How did the prisoners of Gulag know that WWII had ended in Russia?

6. Who was Igor Tronko?

7. How did families typically react when they saw a family member arrested?

8. What was the Cadet Party?

9. What was the Voikov draft?

10. How did the prisoners feel about the offer of joining the white battalion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the widespread arrests started sweeping through Russia, few political prisoners fought against their arrests. First, explain why many men didn't fight against their arrests, and what they thought would happen to them in their first days within the camp. Next, explain how hope was slowly dashed, and why many prisoners refused to commit suicide or attempt escape.

Essay Topic 2

The Russian government was extremely concerned with its reputation in the Western world. Explain how the West first viewed Russia and its labor camps in the 1930s. Explain how propaganda was used by the government to augment the way the West viewed the Gulag camps.

Essay Topic 3

The Gulag prisons systems went through a long timeline of events before coming into fruition in the Russian government. Create a timeline of important events in the gestation of the labor camps in Russia, and how the labor camps eventually became the Gulag death camps. Explain why the government created the camps in the first place, and what purpose these camps served even after the revolution was complete.

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