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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did prisoners say was the common sentence for doing nothing?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) Life.
(d) 10 years.

2. What was used at night when prisoners were being interrogated in the 1920s?
(a) Matches.
(b) Flashlights.
(c) Bolts of lightning.
(d) Car headlights.

3. Which of the following actions did Solzhenitsyn do trying to infuriate those who took joy in his arrest?
(a) He smiled at them.
(b) He spit at them.
(c) He shook his fist at them.
(d) He ignored them.

4. Which of the following food items was frequently served to the prisoners for lunch?
(a) Bread.
(b) Soup.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Cheese.

5. How many useful measures of torture did the Gulag prison system use?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the section number that Solzhenitsyn signed to, unknowing that this consigned him to hard labor and eternal exile?

2. On what charge was Chulpenyev arrested in 1941?

3. What did relatives furiously try to pack when their family members were arrested?

4. For how long were juveniles sent to Gulag when sentenced?

5. Which of the following items was Solzhenitsyn afraid his interrogators will find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Solzhenitsyn during his third year of University study at the NKVD?

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

3. What made the first two hours of the day the most difficult for Solzhenitsyn?

4. Who were the organs?

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

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

7. How did the prisoners feel about the offer of joining the white battalion?

8. What happened in the Gulag prison camps in 1945-1946?

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

10. How did the prisoners of Gulag know that WWII had ended in Russia?

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