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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 chief, in "Chief of Political Control," refuse in place of doing business first?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Rest.
(d) Dinner.

2. What did the narrator say that he refused to listen to? ("Sententious.")
(a) Love stories.
(b) Songs.
(c) Fairy tales.
(d) Promises.

3. What did Pesniakevich's mother own in Minsk? ("Prosthetic Appliances.")
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A whore-house.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A laundry.

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

5. Why did Kurchen write his letter with his left hand instead of his right?
(a) His right hand had been burned.
(b) He had been shot in the right shoulder.
(c) He was crippled on his right side.
(d) He lost his right hand in the ovens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Glebov's old occupation before being sent to the camps?

2. In "The Snake Charmer," how long did Platonov say that he had been in Jankhar?

3. What number gang was the director questioning in "The Injector"?

4. What did Merzlakov steal when he "miraculously managed" to get a stable-hand job at the camps?

5. How much oatmeal did the convicts receive in their portions? ("Land-Lease")

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