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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the visitor and Yakov are together, what story do the two men argue about?
(a) Abel.
(b) Malachi.
(c) Job.
(d) Noah.

2. When one of the guards takes pity on Yakov, what does Yakov suddenly have?
(a) Meat.
(b) A new blanket.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Visitors.

3. What language is Yakov speaking exclusively since leaving the shtetl?
(a) German.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) Latvian.
(d) Russian.

4. By the time a man enters Yakov's cell and offers him a pardon, how long has Yakov been imprisoned?
(a) Three years.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) Thirty months.
(d) Two years.

5. Who does the person visiting Yakov sell beets to?
(a) Zhitnyak's uncle.
(b) Zhitnyak's father.
(c) Zhitnyak's brother.
(d) Zhitnyak's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading the indictment, how does Yakov feel?

2. Which of Yakov's behaviors in prison does the new indictment describe?

3. Through what she sends to Yakov in prison, what new crime does Marfa accuse Yakov of?

4. Who does the local anti-Semite group accuse of committing the murder?

5. After the warden delivers the indictment to Yakov, Yakov reads for a while, then has to put the papers down. When he picks them up again, what does Yakov briefly consider asking Kogin for?

(see the answer key)

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