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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator claim was a "special joy for a convict"? ("Dry Rations")
(a) To have thick soup.
(b) To eat alone.
(c) To prepare food.
(d) To eat with friends.

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

3. What did Potashnikov receive for dinner at the end of "Carpenters"?
(a) Crackers.
(b) Grits.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Bread.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator compare the hills to in "A Pushover Job"?

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

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

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

5. Fedya Shapov had been a member of what league prior to becoming a prisoner?

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