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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms did the Gulag soldier use to describe the prisoners who partook in hunger strikes?
(a) Tramps.
(b) Riffraff.
(c) Dead men.
(d) Bums.

2. What type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?
(a) Excruciatingly tiny cells.
(b) Freezing cold cells.
(c) Massive cement cells.
(d) Cells filled with biting ants.

3. What did von Meck and Velchinko help Palchinsky do in the early stages of Russian revolution?
(a) Torture prisoners.
(b) Capture escaped prisoners.
(c) Set prisoners free.
(d) Feed starving prisoners.

4. Which of the following items were the colors on the Russian uniform meant to represent?
(a) Courage.
(b) Peace.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Heaven.

5. Which of the following authors did Solzhenitsyn NOT quote as writing about evil in the world?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Schiller.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Melville.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years was the Gulag prison system completely overcrowded?

2. For how long did Stalin use officially capital punishment as a way to "clean out" his overcrowded prisons?

3. Which country is the Russian army retreating from in 1941?

4. Which of the following activities was NOT something Solzhenitsyn was allowed to do in prison?

5. Which of the following terms was used to describe prisoners just arriving to exile?

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