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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 were Zeks?

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

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

4. What did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?

5. What did guards transporting prisoners to exile typically steal from them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Palchinsky?

3. What were stolypins?

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

5. Who was in charge of preparing stolypins for prisoner use, and how were the stolypins prepared?

6. What was Vlasov put on trial for in the last of Russia's open trials?

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

8. How was time in Gulag measured?

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

10. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Many prisoners were sent to the Gulag labor camps after being considered counter-revolutionary. First, explain how counter-revolutionary behavior is defined in the text and who was at the forefront of creating those definitions. Next, explain how the work camps struggled to re-educate the prisoners to rid them of their counter-revolutionary tendencies?

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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