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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator say was the only thing that a prisoner would wash if he were only allotted a spoonful of water to bathe?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His mouth.
(c) His nose.
(d) His ears.

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

3. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a novelist.
(d) He was a movie scriptwriter.

4. Which of the following instruments were allowed to be used by political prisoners when under the watch of the worst camp heads?
(a) Saw.
(b) Pick.
(c) All of those listed.
(d) Wheelbarrow.

5. According to Merzlakov, who were the first to die in the camps?
(a) The "scrawny men."
(b) The "larger men."
(c) The "starved men."
(d) The "hungry men."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator sitting by at the opening of "The Snake Charmer"?

2. In "On Tick," what did the narrator say was the safest place to be?

3. What was Glebov's old occupation before being sent to the camps?

4. What did the narrator say "materialized out of nowhere"? ("Sententious.")

5. What did the prisoners refuse to eat in the dining hall and take back to their barracks? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")

Short Essay Questions

1. What "piece of meat" did Golubev offer up in sacrifice? ("A Piece of Meat.")

2. In the story "In The Night," how did Bagretsov cut his finger?

3. How did Platonov, in "The Snake Charmer," die?

4. In "Sententious," who did the narrator say that he envied?

5. What was the "circle" that was created regarding the relationship between work and food in "Shock Therapy"?

6. What happened to Grigoriev and Potashnikov after the foreman found out that they were not carpenters?

7. What plans did Bagretsov have for the underwear that he took off of the corpse?

8. What did Savelev do after finding Ivanovich hung himself?

9. Why were camp officials perplexed by the convicts avoidance of the bathhouse?

10. Why did the narrator state that love was the hardest emotion to return to convicts? ("Sententious.")

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