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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) Get a good nights rest.
(b) Decide to die.
(c) Find hope in life.
(d) Lok forward to the next day.

2. What provided unexpected joy for the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot"?
(a) That he would never lose his law papers.
(b) That he was able to feel the heat of the stove.
(c) That others were weaker than he.
(d) That no one knew his name.

3. Who did Gorbunov kill in "Major Pugachov's Last Battle"?
(a) A guard.
(b) A man who took his bread.
(c) Another prisoner.
(d) A man who took his shoes.

4. What appeared on a tree stump at the end of "Sententious"?
(a) A record-player.
(b) A clean pair of underware.
(c) A pint of vodka.
(d) A pouch of tobacco.

5. What article of the Criminal Code defined political prisoners?
(a) 114.
(b) 58.
(c) 67.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pesniakevich's mother own in Minsk? ("Prosthetic Appliances.")

2. How many axe handles were the men in "Carpenters" required to make every day?

3. What kind of injection did the chief in "Chief of Political Control" need?

4. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?

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

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