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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Yakov's attorney?
(a) Kievski.
(b) Dumbrowski.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Ostrovsky.

2. When a newspaper writer reports all the factual details of the case, what does the government do?
(a) Shut down the newspaper.
(b) Burned the newspaper.
(c) Imprisoned the reporter.
(d) Shot the reporter.

3. When Yakov throws something at the deputy warden, what does the deputy warden say that Yakov's act allows the deputy warden to do?
(a) Whip Yakov.
(b) Shoot Yakov.
(c) Search Yakov.
(d) Send Yakov to solitary confinement.

4. What does Yakov's reading in Chapter 7, Part 3 do to his temperament?
(a) Excite Yakov.
(b) Depress Yakov.
(c) Fuel Yakov's rage.
(d) Fuel Yakov's curiosity.

5. Who ends up being able to visit Yakov in prison because he or she sold beets to the right person?
(a) Nikolai.
(b) Shmuel.
(c) Zina.
(d) Raisl.

6. Who does Yakov see during his frequent hallucinations while in his cell?
(a) Bibikov.
(b) Raisl.
(c) Zhenia.
(d) Nikolai.

7. When the warden finally delivers Yakov's indictment, how does Yakov describe the indictment?
(a) As truthful.
(b) As fantastical.
(c) As fiction.
(d) As dangerous.

8. What happens as Yakov is pacing his cell after his new attorney departs?
(a) Yakov's legs swell.
(b) Yakov cuts his chains loose.
(c) Yakov faints.
(d) Yakov screams.

9. What does the person speaking to Yakov through his cell door offer to Yakov?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Candy.
(c) News.
(d) Meat.

10. After reading the indictment, how does Yakov feel?
(a) Curious.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Devastated.
(d) Incredulous.

11. When the warden brings Yakov a new indictment, what is Yakov being charged as?
(a) An embezzler.
(b) A ritual murderer.
(c) A child molester.
(d) A Hasidic Jew.

12. After his cell is searched in Chapter 7, Part 2, Yakov becomes despondent. What does Yakov find pleasure in thinking about?
(a) Death.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Raisl.
(d) Spring.

13. What does Yakov do when he blacks out?
(a) Shreds his cot.
(b) Removes his clothing.
(c) Hits the wall.
(d) Paces his cell.

14. Whose arrest and interrogation is included as a long section in the indictment?
(a) Zhitnyak's.
(b) Gronfein's.
(c) Marfa's.
(d) Bibikov's.

15. According to new facts that are being learned about Zhenia's death, who is being further implicated in Zhenia's death?
(a) Yakov.
(b) Nikolai.
(c) Marfa.
(d) Gronfein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the guards do when Yakov refuses the pardon he is offered?

2. Before departing for his trial, what does Yakov throw at the deputy warden?

3. When the deputy warden tries to punish Yakov for throwing the item at him, who sticks up for Yakov?

4. What are the papers sent in with Yakov's visitor?

5. When spring arrives, who comes to the prison to comfort Yakov?

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