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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 compare the hills to in "A Pushover Job"?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Frosted glass.
(c) Loaves of sugar.
(d) Sugar cookies.

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

3. What did the narrator claim was a "special joy for a convict"? ("Dry Rations")
(a) To prepare food.
(b) To eat alone.
(c) To have thick soup.
(d) To eat with friends.

4. What appeared on a tree stump at the end of "Sententious"?
(a) A pouch of tobacco.
(b) A record-player.
(c) A clean pair of underware.
(d) A pint of vodka.

5. During what months would the dwarf cedar tree rise up from the ground?
(a) March or April.
(b) April or May.
(c) September or October.
(d) December or January.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As told in "In the Bathhouse," how many men are packed into the dressing-rooms of the bathhouse?

3. What work gang was never worried about in regard to running away? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")

4. What was the last thing that Golubev said in "A Piece of Meat"?

5. In "Prosthetic Appliances," what would a guard mark a cell with if the cell was not to receive hot food?

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