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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the narrator claim was a "special joy for a convict"? ("Dry Rations")
(a) To have thick soup.
(b) To eat with friends.
(c) To prepare food.
(d) To eat alone.

3. Why did Kurchen write his letter with his left hand instead of his right?
(a) He had been shot in the right shoulder.
(b) His right hand had been burned.
(c) He was crippled on his right side.
(d) He lost his right hand in the ovens.

4. What kind of bird did the narrator say was unafraid of people and could be shot easily? ("Sententious.")
(a) Grouse.
(b) Duck.
(c) Quail.
(d) Pheasant.

5. In "On Tick," what did the narrator say was the safest place to be?
(a) The food-storage room.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The horse-drivers' barracks.
(d) The guards' room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator refuse to give up at the end of "Prosthetic Appliances"?

2. What was raked into Shemolyov's work gang? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

3. What did the narrator recall had been confiscated in Magadan? ("Esperanto.")

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

5. What "large village" was the first destination for the narrator in "The Train"?

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