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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Garkunov at the end of "On Tick"?
(a) He fell asleep.
(b) He gave in to the requests.
(c) He escaped.
(d) He died.

2. In "Prosthetic Appliances," what would a guard mark a cell with if the cell was not to receive hot food?
(a) NHF.
(b) XHF.
(c) XX.
(d) X.

3. What "large village" was the first destination for the narrator in "The Train"?
(a) Yakutsk.
(b) Gravetoch.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Timeron.

4. When the name "Skoroseev" was mentioned to the narrator, what did he immediately recall? ("Esperanto.")
(a) The road to Lennigrad.
(b) The road to Siberia.
(c) The road to Moscow.
(d) The road to Tibet.

5. What, in "My First Tooth," was rented to put convicts into?
(a) A school.
(b) A mission.
(c) Huts.
(d) A private home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the sectarian need his extra portion of food to do? ("Quiet.")

3. Why had the lawyers in "The Lawyers' Plot" been taken to the House of Vaskov?

4. What did the narrator say was mixed into the bread that made it "magnificent"? ("Land-Lease.")

5. What did the Diamond trucks and Studebakers haul along the roads in Kolyma? ("Land-Lease.")

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