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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 Bathhouse Squad.
(c) The work-men from the barracks.
(d) The Sanitation Squad.

2. What did the narrator claim was the last human emotion? ("Sententious.")
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Fear.

3. How many axe handles were the men in "Carpenters" required to make every day?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 70.
(d) 30.

4. What work gang was never worried about in regard to running away? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")
(a) The bathhouse gang.
(b) The mine gang.
(c) The forestry gang.
(d) The road gang.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Piece of Meat," how did Golubev always sleep?

2. What was Glebov's old occupation before being sent to the camps?

3. What did the narrator always fail to do in time for dinner? ("Sententious.")

4. What appeared on a tree stump at the end of "Sententious"?

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

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