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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Magic.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Golubev fake so he would not have to return to work? ("A Piece of Meat")
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) A broken back.
(c) Hearing loss.
(d) A broken rib.

3. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?
(a) Twenty at a time.
(b) Five.
(c) Up to a hundred.
(d) Ten to fifteen.

4. In "Shock Therapy," what was described as Merzlakov's former profession?
(a) A grain cutter.
(b) A stable-hand.
(c) A cattle rancher.
(d) A farmer.

5. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?
(a) He was a movie scriptwriter.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a novelist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Merzlakov received for breakfast on the morning that he compared humans to livestock?

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

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

4. What story did the men at the fire NOT want to hear Platonov tell? (The Snake Charmer.")

5. What dessert were the prisoners fed in "Quiet"?

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