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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 raked into Shemolyov's work gang? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) The deformed.
(b) Human rejects.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Tradesmen.

2. What color armbands did the military patrol wear at the train station? ("The Train.")
(a) Grey.
(b) Green.
(c) Navy.
(d) Red.

3. On the train, in "The Train," what did the narrator state was his first happiness?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Freedom.

4. What was Romanov's real occupation? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) Secret police.
(b) American spy.
(c) Nazi informant.
(d) Informant for the German Army.

5. What number gang was the director questioning in "The Injector"?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reminded the narrator of "Esperanto"?

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

3. What provided unexpected joy for the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

4. What were contained in the "magical jars" in the story "Land-Lease"?

5. What did Golubev's boss rely on to choose workers to stay at his camp?( "Magic.")

Short Essay Questions

1. What bliss did the narrator find while in Irkutsk? ("The Train.")

2. Why was Stukov contemptuous and delighted by the shifty-eyed man's admittance about his being an informant? ("Magic")

3. Why did Gusev break the window in the basement of the former monastery? ("My First Tooth.")

4. In "A Child's Drawing," why did the convicts stand in groups of five when guards were dividing out work assignments?

5. What was Kudinov's reasoning for why the convict work gang #4 stood idol on November 12th? ("The Injector.")

6. How did the narrator describe Romanov in "The Lawyer's Plot"?

7. Why did the narrator in "My First Tooth" state that it was easier to bear something after you write it down? ("My First Tooth.")

8. Why did Praga, in "Esperanto," hack his clothing to rags?

9. Why was Golubev called to Stukov's home in "Magic"?

10. Why did the narrator decide that he had not been lucky in getting called to Romanov's home? ("The Lawyer's Plot.")

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