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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Used-Book Dealer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do readers find out happened to Flemming's wife at the end of "The Used-Book Dealer"?
(a) She was convicted as a policital prisoner.
(b) She died.
(c) She left him.
(d) She was taken prisoner.

2. Whose job was it to run the bathhouse and disinfect clothes at the work camps?
(a) The work-men from the barracks.
(b) The section commanders.
(c) The Sanitation Squad.
(d) The Bathhouse Squad.

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

4. In "My First Tooth," what was written in coal on the walls of the basement?
(a) "Do not give up your humanity!"
(b) "Remember your wives!"
(c) "Comrades, be strong!"
(d) "Do not give up!"

5. Who was Golubev's bosses favorite? ("Magic.")
(a) Yakutsk.
(b) Aldan.
(c) Demidova.
(d) Miller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What month was it in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

3. In "Major Pugachov's Last Battle," what did Major Pugachov tell a party boss he was preparing for?

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

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

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