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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Shock Therapy," what was described as Merzlakov's former profession?
(a) A cattle rancher.
(b) A stable-hand.
(c) A grain cutter.
(d) A farmer.

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

3. What did the two men, from "A Pushover Job," place into the bag of pine needles?
(a) A stone.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A stick.
(d) A watch.

4. 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 section commanders.
(d) The Sanitation Squad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what months would the dwarf cedar tree rise up from the ground?

2. What was no convict able to have of his own? ("In the Bathhouse.")

3. In "Sententious," how many shotguns were kept in the tent of the narrator?

4. Who did Fedya write to at the end of "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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