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

2. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?
(a) Ten to fifteen.
(b) Up to a hundred.
(c) Twenty at a time.
(d) Five.

3. What did Fedya call Platonov in "The Snake Charmer"?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Russian.
(c) Michael.
(d) Igor.

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

5. What did the narrator refuse to give up at the end of "Prosthetic Appliances"?
(a) His soul.
(b) His leg.
(c) His hand.
(d) His coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator claim was the farthest thing from envy, fear and bitterness? ("Sententious.")

2. What was a "kolymka"?

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

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

5. In "Shock Therapy," what was described as Merzlakov's former profession?

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