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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 was no convict able to have of his own? ("In the Bathhouse.")
(a) Socks.
(b) Towels.
(c) Underwear.
(d) Shoes.

2. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?
(a) Bread.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Jam.
(d) Grapes.

3. What did Glebov want at the end of "In the Night"?
(a) A new coat.
(b) A warm meal.
(c) A smoke.
(d) A coffee.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Merzlakov pretend was hurt so that he would not have to return to work?

4. At the beginning of "In The Night," what had just ended?

5. What prints did the men in "Dry Rations" follow to get to the spring?

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