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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 say was mixed into the bread that made it "magnificent"? ("Land-Lease.")
(a) Hope.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Love.
(d) Tea.

2. Who was Golubev's bosses favorite? ("Magic.")
(a) Demidova.
(b) Aldan.
(c) Yakutsk.
(d) Miller.

3. What sun had burned the men's faces in "My First Tooth"?
(a) Perihelion sun.
(b) Ural sun.
(c) Endergonic sun.
(d) Aphelion sun.

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

5. What did Golubev's boss rely on to choose workers to stay at his camp?( "Magic.")
(a) "Special powers."
(b) "A reliance on fate."
(c) "A hidden listing of occupations."
(d) "A slight of the hand by the handlers."

6. What was the hospital director doing with the doctors at the opening of "Chief of Political Control"?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Watching a surgery.
(c) Playing pool.
(d) Complaining about the prisoners.

7. What was raked into Shemolyov's work gang? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) The deformed.
(b) Human rejects.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Tradesmen.

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

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

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

11. What occupation did Golubev's boss ask if any of the new prisoners had held? ("Magic.")
(a) Geologists.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Secret police.

12. 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 Russia."
(c) "History of WWI."
(d) "The Complete Works of Shakespeare."

13. What kind of injection did the chief in "Chief of Political Control" need?
(a) Insulin.
(b) Subcutaneous.
(c) Blood thickener.
(d) Glucose.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who shoved the narrator up against a window in the basement? ("My First Tooth.")

3. What did the orderly tell the narrator to bring back from Romanov's home? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

4. What color armbands did the military patrol wear at the train station? ("The Train.")

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

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