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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. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?

2. What was Solzhenitsyn's first cell number?

3. What type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?

4. How were most prisoners transported to the Gulag prisons?

5. Why did the Russian government kill and imprison its people, according to Solzhenitsyn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the typical reaction most prisoners had during the first 24 hours after their arrest and imprisonment in Gulag?

2. How does Solzhenitsyn define evil?

3. What happened in the military case of Mongolia in 1941?

4. Who was Igor Tronko?

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

6. Why couldn't interrogators be trusted to uphold the law?

7. What was the Section 11 paperwork that Solzhenitsyn signed during his interrogation?

8. What happened in the 1960s when 70 judges were brought before the Supreme Court to justify their actions in the Gulag trials?

9. While imprisoned, what did Solzhenitsyn feel about his Motherland?

10. What significant event happened on Russian soil in the autumn of 1941?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After leaving the local prisons, prisoners were forced into a grueling transit process on their way to Gulag. Describe each of the three main modes of transportation prisoners took to arrive at Gulag. Explain the various horrors that awaited prisoners aboard each of these forms of transportation.

Essay Topic 2

In his memoir, Solzhenitsyn gives very specific descriptions about the soldiers who were a part of the mass arrests leading to the overflow of prisoners in Gulag. What types of men were typically arresting soldiers during this time? What was specific about the arresting soldiers' uniforms? What does Solzhenitsyn remember most about the guards who arrested him?

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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