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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 narrator, in "Sententious," claim that each day brought?
(a) The danger of a "lurch into death."
(b) The renewed hope of life.
(c) The desire to die.
(d) The urge to escape.

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

3. What did the narrator claim was "a relative concept"? ("In the Bathhouse")
(a) Infestation.
(b) Eating.
(c) Lamenting.
(d) Wishes.

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

5. According to Golubev's boss in "Magic," who are all of the carpenters?
(a) The peasants.
(b) The men with belts.
(c) Those with stitches on their arms.
(d) Those with bruised hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What article of the Criminal Code defined political prisoners?

2. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?

3. What, in "Land-Lease," was nicknamed "American honey"?

4. Where did the convicts spend the night in "My First Tooth"?

5. What was the only way that prisoners could stand by the stove in "Quiet"?

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