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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Piece of Meat, The Snake Charmer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator compare the hills to in "A Pushover Job"?
(a) Loaves of sugar.
(b) Frosted glass.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Sugar cookies.

2. What was a "kolymka"?
(a) A bread.
(b) A pudding.
(c) A lamp.
(d) A camp.

3. What did Seva refuse to play cards for? ("On Tick.")
(a) Boots.
(b) A pillow.
(c) A coat.
(d) A blanket.

4. What dessert were the prisoners fed in "Quiet"?
(a) Cake.
(b) Sugared bread.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Fruit.

5. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?
(a) Bread.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Biscuits.
(d) Jam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator say was the only thing that a prisoner would wash if he were only allotted a spoonful of water to bathe?

2. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?

3. What did "Carpenters" state men were not shown?

4. Who did Gorbunov kill in "Major Pugachov's Last Battle"?

5. What work gang was never worried about in regard to running away? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")

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