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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 is something Aksionov does NOT think of in bed the night he first met Semyonich?
(a) Getting his revenge.
(b) Writing to the Czar once more.
(c) His children.
(d) How his wife told him not to go to the fair.

2. Who enters Aksionov’s room the night he was questioned by the guard about the tunnel?
(a) Aksionov’s wife.
(b) The Governor.
(c) Semyonich.
(d) The Czar.

3. What does Semyonich say that makes Aksionov certain it was he who committed the crime?
(a) He mentioned that Aksionov was sleeping with his bag under his head when the knife was planted.
(b) He mentioned the brand of knife used to kill the merchant.
(c) He mentioned the name of the innkeeper.
(d) He knew how the merchant looked.

4. How does Aksionov reply when asked by the new prisoners why he is in jail?
(a) He says he killed a man.
(b) He says he robbed a bank.
(c) He says he must have deserved it.
(d) He says he was wrongfully convicted of murder.

5. What does Semyonich tell Aksionov one night in his cell regarding Aksionov’s alleged crime?
(a) He tells him he killed the merchant and hid the knife in Aksionov’s things.
(b) He says he heard the merchant survived.
(c) He says he knows the police set him up.
(d) He says he knows Aksionov killed the merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Semyonich begin to do when Aksionov does not forgive him?

2. What does the Governor say to Aksionov when asking him who dug the tunnel?

3. How often does Aksionov hear from his family while in prison?

4. How does Aksionov reply to the Governor when asked who dug the tunnel?

5. What does Aksionov tell the person who visits his cell the night he was questioned by the guard about the tunnel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Makar tell Aksionov he will do if he tells anyone what he has found out, and how does Aksionov respond?

2. What does Aksionov discover Makar Semyonich has done one night when he is walking the prison after not sleeping for two weeks?

3. Why does the Governor come to question the prisoners near the end of the story?

4. What do the new convicts discuss when they first arrive at the prison?

5. How does Aksionov reply to the Governor when asked who dug the tunnel?

6. What does Aksionov tell Semyonich when he enters his room at night after the tunnel was found.

7. How does the Governor ask Aksionov about the tunnel, thinking it will convince him to tell what he knows?

8. What does Semyonich tell Aksionov he will do so that Aksionov can be set free?

9. Why does Semyonich come to beg Aksionov’s forgiveness after the tunnel was found?

10. How does “God Sees the Truth But Waits” end?

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