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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. During which decade did prisoners rarely have food due to a food shortage all across Russia?

2. Which of the following medical conditions did Lenin suffer from in 1922?

3. Which of the following adjectives does Solzhenitsyn use to describe the powers of execution?

4. In Zihma, what did prisoners being transported on foot use as nets to catch fish in the river?

5. Which of the following methods was NOT one prisoners used to try to figure out where they were going when being sent into exile?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did women sometimes go crazy when they found a scrap of paper in the transit camps?

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

4. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

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

6. For what offenses could prisoners be sent to the punishment cells?

7. Why was capital punishment banned in 1920?

8. Which prisons in the Gulag network does Solzhenitsyn remember living in as a prisoner?

9. What were stolypins?

10. How did prisoners figure out where they were being relocated, particularly when being sent into exile?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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