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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carpenters, Dry Rations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many parts did the men have to divide their rations into? ("Dry Rations.")
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 70.
(d) 60.

2. What did the narrator compare the hills to in "A Pushover Job"?
(a) Sugar cookies.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Frosted glass.
(d) Loaves of sugar.

3. How long had Merzlakov been in the camp (according to "Shock Therapy")?
(a) A year and a half.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six days.

4. Because of the barrenness of the winter, as described in "A Pushover Job," how far could a person be seen from?
(a) A quarter mile away.
(b) 500 feet away.
(c) Half a mile away.
(d) A mile away.

5. Whose job was it to run the bathhouse and disinfect clothes at the work camps?
(a) The Bathhouse Squad.
(b) The work-men from the barracks.
(c) The Sanitation Squad.
(d) The section commanders.

Short Answer Questions

1. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?

2. What did "Carpenters" state men were not shown?

3. In "A Pushover Job," which northern tree did the narrator state that he loved the most?

4. What did the narrator claim was a "special joy for a convict"? ("Dry Rations")

5. In "Carpenters," for how long had the fog been so thick that a man was not able to be seen from "two paces away"?

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