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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month was it in "The Lawyers' Plot"?
(a) December.
(b) March.
(c) April.
(d) October.

2. Who reminded the narrator of "Esperanto"?
(a) A dying convict.
(b) An escaping convict.
(c) A wandering actor.
(d) A guard.

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

4. In 1939, what quarantine had the narrator and five others endured? ("Esperanto.")
(a) Typhoid.
(b) The plague.
(c) TB.
(d) Measles.

5. How many years of his life was the narrator ready to forget? ("The Train.")
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

6. What, in the narrator's language, meant "run off at the mouth"? ("Esperanto.")
(a) Drooling
(b) Squealing.
(c) Ticking.
(d) Tetling.

7. According to the narrator in "My First Tooth," why is writing something down the best thing to do?
(a) Then others can read your story.
(b) Then it can be published.
(c) Then you can forget.
(d) Then it can be verified.

8. To what director was "The Injector" written to?
(a) The Director of Munitions.
(b) The Director of Incoming Prisoners.
(c) The Director of Mines.
(d) The Director of Supplies.

9. At the end of "Esperanto," what did Skoroseev ask of the narrator after he had spent the night in his (Skoroseev's) home?
(a) A smoke.
(b) A meal.
(c) A blanket.
(d) Payment for the night.

10. What was the name of the prisoner who was allowed to drive the tractor? ("Land-Lease.")
(a) Grieser.
(b) Lebedev.
(c) Skinkov.
(d) Rombard.

11. What, in "Land-Lease," was nicknamed "American honey"?
(a) Shortbread.
(b) Syrup.
(c) Glycerin.
(d) Condensed milk.

12. What was told, at the end of "The Lawyers' Plot", had happened to Rebrov?
(a) He had been killed.
(b) He had been arrested.
(c) He had escaped.
(d) He had been sentenced to the mines.

13. According to "The Lawyers' Plot," how many paths led out of the mine?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

14. What did Praga, in "Esperanto," do to his clothing?
(a) Traded it for tobacco.
(b) Burned it.
(c) Tore it into rags.
(d) Traded it for extra soup.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the convicts spend the night in "My First Tooth"?

2. Why was Peter Zayats beaten by the guards in "My First Tooth"?

3. At the end of "The Train," where did the narrator state that he was returning from?

4. Before 1938, according to "Land-Lease," what was used to move logs?

5. Why was the window in the basement broken? ("My First Tooth.")

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