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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) April.
(b) March.
(c) October.
(d) December.

2. What, in "Chief of Political Control," was summoning the hospital director?
(a) A bell.
(b) A phone call.
(c) An alarm.
(d) A siren.

3. Who, upon growing up, "created many bright birds"? ("A Child's Drawing.")
(a) God.
(b) The narrator's brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The child.

4. Where did the convicts spend the night in "My First Tooth"?
(a) A police station.
(b) A cave.
(c) A bathhouse.
(d) A barracks.

5. At the end of "The Train," where did the narrator state that he was returning from?
(a) Hell.
(b) Moscow.
(c) England.
(d) Kolyma.

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

7. What provided unexpected joy for the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot"?
(a) That he would never lose his law papers.
(b) That others were weaker than he.
(c) That he was able to feel the heat of the stove.
(d) That no one knew his name.

8. 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) Payment for the night.
(d) A blanket.

9. In what year was the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot" born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1934.

10. What were contained in the "magical jars" in the story "Land-Lease"?
(a) Pickles.
(b) Vienna Sausages.
(c) Spam.
(d) Tobacco.

11. What book set did the narrator plan on buying once he reached Moscow? ("The Train.")
(a) "The Complete Works of Walt Whitman."
(b) "History of WWI."
(c) "History of Russia."
(d) "The Complete Works of Shakespeare."

12. How much oatmeal did the convicts receive in their portions? ("Land-Lease")
(a) Half a cup.
(b) One cup.
(c) 1 tablespoon.
(d) 2 tablespoons.

13. What equipment arrived from America and, therefore, convicts learned a new word?
(a) Bulldozer.
(b) Harvester.
(c) Front-end loader.
(d) Crane.

14. What was the name of Golubev's boss in "Magic"?
(a) Flakov.
(b) Stukov.
(c) Kindner.
(d) Stiffern.

15. What had the narrator written complaints about? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) Weather work conditions.
(b) Guard beatings.
(c) Bunk conditions.
(d) Bread rations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What month was it in the opening of "My First Tooth"?

3. What did the man who asked the narrator for help, in carrying his baskets to the scales, have in his baskets? ("The Train.")

4. What did Nikishov claim was different about Kolyma? ("Chief of Political Control.")

5. In the notebook in "A Child's Drawings", what were all the houses surrounded by?

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