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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 activities could get a person sent to the punishment camps in TON?
(a) Scratching.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Spitting.
(d) Belching.

2. Where were the prisoners who were sent into exile relocated to?
(a) Bavaria.
(b) Romania.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Siberia.

3. Which of the following methods of transportation was NOT frequently used to send prisoners out to exile?
(a) Horse carts.
(b) Boats.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Foot marches.

4. In what year did the new era of executions start in the Gulag prison systems?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1946.

5. Which of the following bunks were considered the best bunks to have in the summer?
(a) Bunks at the top of the car.
(b) Bunks at the bottom of the car.
(c) Bunks in the middle of the car.
(d) Bunks on the sides of the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following liquids frequently made prisoners in punishment cells drunk?

2. When forming a line for drinking water, which of the following prisoners were allowed to drink first from the common cup?

3. How many prisons could a true son of Gulag name?

4. After Krylenko's trial, how many men were spared death by execution?

5. How long did a typical bathroom break last when there were 120 prisoners who needed to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the peasants of Kotlas live after a Gulag prison was set up on their land in 1938?

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

4. When and where did the first Gulag hunger strike occur?

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

6. What happened during the new era of executions?

7. What was the All-Russian Central Executive Committee?

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

9. How did prisoners figure out where they were being relocated, particularly when being sent into exile?

10. Why did women sometimes go crazy when they found a scrap of paper in the transit camps?

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