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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the guard with the bright-blue eyes in "My First Tooth"?
(a) Noken.
(b) Gusev.
(c) Sherbakov.
(d) Siberkov.

4. From where did the new group of prisoners come from? ("Magic.")
(a) Leningrad.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Prague.
(d) Moscow.

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

6. What was Romanov's real occupation? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) Nazi informant.
(b) Informant for the German Army.
(c) American spy.
(d) Secret police.

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

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

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

10. What month was it in the opening of "My First Tooth"?
(a) April.
(b) June.
(c) October.
(d) August.

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

12. What was the Convict Injector to be replaced with? ("The Injector")
(a) An older injector.
(b) A civilian employee.
(c) A new injector.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

15. What color armbands did the military patrol wear at the train station? ("The Train.")
(a) Navy.
(b) Red.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound did the narrator say was a symbol of the "mainland" for him? ("The Train.")

2. According to "The Lawyers' Plot", what does "smertin" mean?

3. What kind of underwear had the narrator not worn in years? ("The Train.")

4. What equipment arrived from America and, therefore, convicts learned a new word?

5. What position was Skoroseev given in "Esperanto."?

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