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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. What did the narrator always fail to do in time for dinner? ("Sententious.")
(a) Change clothes.
(b) Boil water.
(c) Make bread.
(d) Bathe.

2. What fresh prints were described at the opening of "Land Lease"?
(a) Tractor prints.
(b) Animal prints.
(c) Human footprints.
(d) Plow prints.

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

4. How much oatmeal did the convicts receive in their portions? ("Land-Lease")
(a) Half a cup.
(b) 2 tablespoons.
(c) 1 tablespoon.
(d) One cup.

5. What was the name of the prisoner who was allowed to drive the tractor? ("Land-Lease.")
(a) Skinkov.
(b) Grieser.
(c) Lebedev.
(d) Rombard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Diamond trucks and Studebakers haul along the roads in Kolyma? ("Land-Lease.")

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

3. In "Sententious," how many shotguns were kept in the tent of the narrator?

4. How did the narrator, in "Sententious," perceive the tent in which he slept?

5. To whom was "Sententious" dedicated?

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