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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Piece of Meat, The Snake Charmer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was denied hot food for refusing to give up his prosthetic arm?
(a) Shor.
(b) Panin.
(c) Grisha.
(d) Karavaev.

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

3. What did "Carpenters" state men were not shown?
(a) The food trucks.
(b) Where the blankets were.
(c) A thermometer.
(d) A clock.

4. At the beginning of "In The Night," what had just ended?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Noon tea.
(c) Supper.
(d) Lunch.

5. What was the narrator sitting by at the opening of "The Snake Charmer"?
(a) A tree.
(b) A gun.
(c) A boulder.
(d) A fence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?

2. What did Glebov want at the end of "In the Night"?

3. In "Prosthetic Appliances," what would a guard mark a cell with if the cell was not to receive bread?

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

5. What had Merzlakov received for breakfast on the morning that he compared humans to livestock?

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