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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 article of the Criminal Code defined political prisoners?
(a) 67.
(b) 114.
(c) 14.
(d) 58.

2. In "Major Pugachov's Last Battle," what did Major Pugachov tell a party boss he was preparing for?
(a) A transfer to another camp.
(b) A play.
(c) A concert.
(d) A trip to the ovens.

3. What did the narrator say "materialized out of nowhere"? ("Sententious.")
(a) Food.
(b) People.
(c) Bread.
(d) Song.

4. What had Merzlakov received for breakfast on the morning that he compared humans to livestock?
(a) Two eggs.
(b) An ounce of milk.
(c) One slice of bread.
(d) Three spoonfuls of porridge.

5. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?
(a) He was a movie scriptwriter.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a novelist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Fedya call Platonov in "The Snake Charmer"?

4. According to Merzlakov, who were the first to die in the camps?

5. What did the narrator claim was "a relative concept"? ("In the Bathhouse")

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