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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only way that prisoners could stand by the stove in "Quiet"?
(a) To dry shoes.
(b) To dry bread.
(c) To dry their hands.
(d) To warm their soup.

2. What was the last thing that Golubev said in "A Piece of Meat"?
(a) "Go to hell."
(b) "Leave me to die."
(c) "Never again."
(d) "There is always tomorrow."

3. What work gang was never worried about in regard to running away? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")
(a) The bathhouse gang.
(b) The forestry gang.
(c) The road gang.
(d) The mine gang.

4. In "A Piece of Meat," how did Golubev always sleep?
(a) Standing.
(b) With a blanket over his head.
(c) Sitting up.
(d) In his clothes.

5. In "The Snake Charmer," how long did Platonov say that he had been in Jankhar?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator say "materialized out of nowhere"? ("Sententious.")

2. In "Sententious," how many shotguns were kept in the tent of the narrator?

3. What did the narrator claim was "a relative concept"? ("In the Bathhouse")

4. What are the bathhouse sessions referred to in "In the Bathhouse"?

5. What mountain spring did the narrator and his three companions reach at the beginning of "Dry Rations"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plans did Bagretsov have for the underwear that he took off of the corpse?

2. What did the narrator in "A Pushover Job" and his companion do to full-fill their quota of pine needles?

3. Why were camp officials perplexed by the convicts avoidance of the bathhouse?

4. How did Platonov, in "The Snake Charmer," die?

5. Why did Garkunov die at the end of "On Tick"?

6. What did Savelev do after finding Ivanovich hung himself?

7. Why did the narrator state that love was the hardest emotion to return to convicts? ("Sententious.")

8. What hypothesis was tested in the story "Quiet"?

9. What materials were needed to make the playing cards that the men in "On Tick" used?

10. What "piece of meat" did Golubev offer up in sacrifice? ("A Piece of Meat.")

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