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

2. In "On Tick," what did the narrator say was the safest place to be?
(a) The guards' room.
(b) The food-storage room.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The horse-drivers' barracks.

3. What story did the men at the fire NOT want to hear Platonov tell? (The Snake Charmer.")
(a) "The Club of Black Jacks."
(b) "Utopia."
(c) "The Count of Montecristo."
(d) "The Vampire."

4. What did Garkunov have under his dirty undershirt?
(a) A flak jacket.
(b) A linen shirt.
(c) A fleece jacket.
(d) A sweater.

5. How did the narrator, in "Sententious," perceive the tent in which he slept?
(a) As a place of comfort.
(b) As a fog.
(c) As a gift.
(d) As a comfortable bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the needles of the dwarf cedar tree taken to?

2. Which of the following instruments were allowed to be used by political prisoners when under the watch of the worst camp heads?

3. What are the bathhouse sessions referred to in "In the Bathhouse"?

4. In "In The Night," what were Glebov and Bagretsov looking for?

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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