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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the sectarian need his extra portion of food to do? ("Quiet.")
(a) Lok forward to the next day.
(b) Get a good nights rest.
(c) Decide to die.
(d) Find hope in life.

2. Who did Fedya write to at the end of "Dry Rations"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

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

4. What was the name of the guard with the bright-blue eyes in "My First Tooth"?
(a) Sherbakov.
(b) Siberkov.
(c) Noken.
(d) Gusev.

5. What did the narrator, in "Sententious," claim was the first pity to return?
(a) Pity for loved-ones.
(b) Pity for self.
(c) Pity for mankind.
(d) Pity for animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men were standing in the corridor awaiting a strip search? ("Prosthetic Appliances.")

2. What did the narrator say that he refused to listen to? ("Sententious.")

3. What job did Skoroseev volunteer to do since no one else could or would? ("Esperanto.")

4. What, in "Chief of Political Control," was summoning the hospital director?

5. In "Prosthetic Appliances," what would a guard mark a cell with if the cell was not to receive bread?

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