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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. How are the books in the library catalog listed?
(a) By the weight of the volume.
(b) By the author's middle initial.
(c) By the number of pages.
(d) By the color of the cover.

2. What does Cincinnatus look at in the library catalog?
(a) A child's drawings.
(b) A map of the town.
(c) A note from the librarian.
(d) A photograph of himself.

3. What does the librarian refuse to do?
(a) Discuss the organization of the library.
(b) Particpate in Pierre's card trick.
(c) Discuss the conditions of Cincinnatus's cell.
(d) Bring Cincinnatus's books.

4. Who turns the cell light out?
(a) The spider.
(b) The director.
(c) Rodion.
(d) Cincinnatus.

5. What does Cincinnatus describe as discovering, as he takes off layer after layer of his clothes/himself?
(a) A connection with the world.
(b) His core being.
(c) Nonexistence.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the director say is wrong with Roman Vissarionovich?

2. Where is the prison located?

3. Who does Rodrig Ivanovich seem to transform into?

4. What does Rodrig Ivanovich say after Cincinnatus reads the letter?

5. On the eighth day, how much of Cincinnatus' pencil is used up?

Short Essay Questions

1. After telling his "joke," what does Pierre say about how Cincinnatus looks?

2. What does Cincinnatus hear in the prison hallway?

3. Describe the librarian.

4. Besides how long Cincinnatus has until his execution, what else does Cincinnatus want to know from his captors? What is their response?

5. What is the new prisoner doing when Cincinnatus walks past his cell after meeting Emmie in the hallway?

6. What does Cincinnatus at first mistake for a window?

7. What does Emmie do with the water jug in Cincinnatus' cell?

8. What does Cincinnatus realize as he heads back to his cell with Rodion?

9. Describe Pierre's circus performance.

10. What does Cincinnatus hope to get out of seeing Marthe?

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