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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sententious.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator claim was the farthest thing from envy, fear and bitterness? ("Sententious.")
(a) Warmth.
(b) Caring.
(c) Love.
(d) Solidarity.

2. What did the two men, from "A Pushover Job," place into the bag of pine needles?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A stick.
(c) A watch.
(d) A stone.

3. What did the narrator, in "Sententious," claim was the first pity to return?
(a) Pity for self.
(b) Pity for mankind.
(c) Pity for loved-ones.
(d) Pity for animals.

4. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty at a time.
(c) Up to a hundred.
(d) Ten to fifteen.

5. How long had Merzlakov been in the camp (according to "Shock Therapy")?
(a) Two years.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) Six days.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the barrenness of the winter, as described in "A Pushover Job," how far could a person be seen from?

2. What had Merzlakov received for breakfast on the morning that he compared humans to livestock?

3. At the beginning of "In The Night," what had just ended?

4. What did Glebov want at the end of "In the Night"?

5. Fedya Shapov had been a member of what league prior to becoming a prisoner?

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