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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator always fail to do in time for dinner? ("Sententious.")
(a) Make bread.
(b) Change clothes.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Boil water.

2. What did Merzlakov pretend was hurt so that he would not have to return to work?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His hand.
(c) His leg.
(d) His back.

3. What did the narrator say "materialized out of nowhere"? ("Sententious.")
(a) Food.
(b) People.
(c) Bread.
(d) Song.

4. What are the bathhouse sessions referred to in "In the Bathhouse"?
(a) Tyranny.
(b) Myths.
(c) Hate-fueled.
(d) Lies.

5. In "Sententious," how many shotguns were kept in the tent of the narrator?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

6. From what book were the cards made from that were used in "On Tick"?
(a) A book by Victor Hugo.
(b) A book by Shakespeare.
(c) A bible.
(d) Matchbooks.

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

8. What did the narrator say that he refused to listen to? ("Sententious.")
(a) Promises.
(b) Songs.
(c) Love stories.
(d) Fairy tales.

9. In "Quiet," what was concerning to the narrator about the tables in the camp dining room?
(a) They were broken.
(b) They were sticky.
(c) They were clean.
(d) They were full of food.

10. What did the narrator claim was "a relative concept"? ("In the Bathhouse")
(a) Infestation.
(b) Wishes.
(c) Eating.
(d) Lamenting.

11. What did the narrator refuse to give up at the end of "Prosthetic Appliances"?
(a) His leg.
(b) His coat.
(c) His soul.
(d) His hand.

12. Who was denied hot food for refusing to give up his prosthetic arm?
(a) Shor.
(b) Panin.
(c) Karavaev.
(d) Grisha.

13. What did the narrator, in "Sententious," claim that each day brought?
(a) The urge to escape.
(b) The desire to die.
(c) The danger of a "lurch into death."
(d) The renewed hope of life.

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

15. What mountain spring did the narrator and his three companions reach at the beginning of "Dry Rations"?
(a) Mitenth.
(b) Supktov.
(c) Nintekuv.
(d) Duskania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator, in "Sententious," claim was the first pity to return?

2. What did Potashnikov receive for dinner at the end of "Carpenters"?

3. At the beginning of "In The Night," what had just ended?

4. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?

5. What was the only way that prisoners could stand by the stove in "Quiet"?

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