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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lend-Lease, Condensed Milk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, upon growing up, "created many bright birds"? ("A Child's Drawing.")
(a) The narrator's brother.
(b) God.
(c) The child.
(d) The narrator.

2. What, in "Land-Lease," was nicknamed "American honey"?
(a) Syrup.
(b) Shortbread.
(c) Glycerin.
(d) Condensed milk.

3. In the notebook in "A Child's Drawings", what were all the houses surrounded by?
(a) Animals.
(b) Trees.
(c) Fences.
(d) Roads.

4. What equipment arrived from America and, therefore, convicts learned a new word?
(a) Bulldozer.
(b) Front-end loader.
(c) Harvester.
(d) Crane.

5. What did the narrator claim was the last human emotion? ("Sententious.")
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day was it during "Chief of Political Control"?

2. What did Nikishov claim was different about Kolyma? ("Chief of Political Control.")

3. What was the name of the prisoner who was allowed to drive the tractor? ("Land-Lease.")

4. In Kolyma, what "keeps secrets and reveals them"? ("Land-Lease.")

5. What did the narrator, in "Sententious," claim was the first pity to return?

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