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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 train station was the location of "The Train" ?
(a) Niemerov.
(b) Tranpot.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Diertsuv.

2. Under what title did Drabkina publish her memoirs? ("The Used-Book Deale.")
(a) "To Write Again."
(b) "To Remember."
(c) "Black Toast."
(d) "Sudden Forgetting."

3. What color was the notebook that the men found in "A Child's Drawing"?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

4. What did Glebov want at the end of "In the Night"?
(a) A coffee.
(b) A smoke.
(c) A warm meal.
(d) A new coat.

5. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?
(a) He was a novelist.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a movie scriptwriter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in "Land-Lease," was nicknamed "American honey"?

2. What mountain spring did the narrator and his three companions reach at the beginning of "Dry Rations"?

3. To what Shakespearean character was the taker of "meat" compared?

4. During what months would the dwarf cedar tree rise up from the ground?

5. What grade did the narrator receive on his test of the Russian language? ("The Used-Book Dealer.")

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