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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lend-Lease, Condensed Milk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in "My First Tooth," why is writing something down the best thing to do?
(a) Then others can read your story.
(b) Then it can be published.
(c) Then it can be verified.
(d) Then you can forget.

2. What prints did the men in "Dry Rations" follow to get to the spring?
(a) Tractor prints.
(b) Solider's foot prints.
(c) Wagon prints.
(d) Deer prints.

3. Where did the convicts spend the night in "My First Tooth"?
(a) A cave.
(b) A police station.
(c) A barracks.
(d) A bathhouse.

4. What mountain spring did the narrator and his three companions reach at the beginning of "Dry Rations"?
(a) Mitenth.
(b) Supktov.
(c) Nintekuv.
(d) Duskania.

5. In what year was the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot" born?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1890.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Major Pugachov's Last Battle," what did Major Pugachov tell a party boss he was preparing for?

2. What time was the narrator to go see Romanov in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

3. What did the narrator say that he refused to listen to? ("Sententious.")

4. What, in "My First Tooth," was rented to put convicts into?

5. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?

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