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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Yakov envisions talking with the Tsar, what is one topic the two men do NOT discuss?
(a) The power of gossip.
(b) Fatherhood.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Politics.

2. What does the person speaking to Yakov through his cell door share with Yakov about the speaker's son?
(a) He has become a father.
(b) He has been married.
(c) He has been arrested.
(d) He has been tried.

3. Through what she sends to Yakov in prison, Marfa admits she had Yakov followed. Who does she have follow Yakov?
(a) Zhenia.
(b) Nikolai.
(c) Zina.
(d) Bibikov.

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

5. Yakov begins thinking many evil thoughts after he stops keeping track of the days. Who does Yakov think evil thoughts about?
(a) The warden.
(b) The deputy warden.
(c) The Tsar.
(d) The prosecutor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Yakov and his visitor in Chapter 8, Part 4 first see each other, what do they do?

2. As Yakov envisions talking with the Tsar, what does Yakov imagine himself doing?

3. What is on the pages that Yakov has been given?

4. Which of Yakov's behaviors in prison does the new indictment describe?

5. After the warden delivers the indictment to Yakov, Yakov reads for a while, then has to put the papers down. When he picks them up again, what does Yakov briefly consider asking Kogin for?

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