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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. What did Gendelman do for a living?

2. Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe the academic civilians in Russia?

3. Which of the following is NOT a way that prisoners died while being transported from prison to prison on foot?

4. Which of the following camps was known for being lice ridden?

5. Who were Zeks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What were stolypins?

7. How was time in Gulag measured?

8. Who was Palchinsky?

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

10. What happened during the new era of executions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When people were sent to a Gulag labor camp, it was particularly difficult for their families. Explain how families tried to cope when one of their members was sent away. Give at least two ways prisoners attempted to stay in contact with their families even during their imprisonment.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Throughout the Gulag prison system, there was a vast organization of punishments and rewards in regards to the prisoners' productivity on a given day. First, explain how the productivity of prisoners was measured on a given day. Next, explain at least two ways prisoners were rewarded for meeting their work quota and two ways prisoners were punished for falling below the quota.

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