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

2. Which of the following camps was known for being lice ridden?
(a) Vologda.
(b) Usman.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Novosibirsk.

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

4. How long did the Bolsheviks struggle to overthrow the tsar?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 40 years.

5. Which of the following camps was known for having good barracks?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Vologda.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Usman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the years 1945-1946, how many prisoners were dying every day in every camp of Gulag?

2. How many compartments were in a typical passenger car headed out to exile?

3. Who famously uttered the words, "Intelligentsia are not the nation's brains, but their excrement"?

4. Which of the following men is described as "the only Russian crazy enough to return without authorization"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises in the camps did prisoners remember that shocked their systems upon arrival?

2. Who was Palchinsky?

3. What would prisoners drink while being transported?

4. How was time in Gulag measured?

5. What did prisoners eat when they were being transported from one prison to another?

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

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

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

9. Who were the sons of Gulag?

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

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