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

2. Which of the following groups of foreigners was NOT seized when Tashkent fell short of their quota?
(a) Wealthy Italians.
(b) Exiled Koreans.
(c) Chinese railway workers.
(d) Leningrad Estonians.

3. During what year was Solzhenitsyn arrested?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1935.

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

5. What was the name given to the guard who was in charge of waking the prisoners up in the morning?
(a) The doorknock.
(b) The alarmsound.
(c) The turnkey.
(d) The breaksleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did most men survive in the Gulag prison systems before being executed?

2. What inappropriate subject did Solzhenitsyn joke about, leading to his arrest?

3. What type of prison cells were prisoners kept in during their interrogation process?

4. Who was Captain Borsch's partner?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Section 11 paperwork that Solzhenitsyn signed during his interrogation?

3. While imprisoned, what did Solzhenitsyn feel about his Motherland?

4. Why was Solzhenitsyn arrested, and what was his reaction?

5. What reason does Solzhenitsyn give for the mass arrests that were sweeping through Russia during the time of Gulag's height?

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

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

8. How long did trials at the height of Gulag last for civilian prisoners?

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

10. Who were the organs?

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