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

2. What did the narrator always fail to do in time for dinner? ("Sententious.")
(a) Boil water.
(b) Bathe.
(c) Change clothes.
(d) Make bread.

3. What did the sectarian need his extra portion of food to do? ("Quiet.")
(a) Find hope in life.
(b) Get a good nights rest.
(c) Decide to die.
(d) Lok forward to the next day.

4. Why did Kurchen write his letter with his left hand instead of his right?
(a) He had been shot in the right shoulder.
(b) He lost his right hand in the ovens.
(c) He was crippled on his right side.
(d) His right hand had been burned.

5. Which of the following instruments were allowed to be used by political prisoners when under the watch of the worst camp heads?
(a) Pick.
(b) Wheelbarrow.
(c) Saw.
(d) All of those listed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the two men, from "A Pushover Job," place into the bag of pine needles?

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

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

4. What did Bagretsov cut his finger on as he lay on the ground near Glebov?

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

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