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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. Who was shot in "Quiet"?
(a) The guard's dog.
(b) The sectarian.
(c) The food server.
(d) The guard.

2. What mountain spring did the narrator and his three companions reach at the beginning of "Dry Rations"?
(a) Mitenth.
(b) Duskania.
(c) Nintekuv.
(d) Supktov.

3. How many axe handles were the men in "Carpenters" required to make every day?
(a) 90.
(b) 70.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

4. Whose job was it to run the bathhouse and disinfect clothes at the work camps?
(a) The work-men from the barracks.
(b) The Bathhouse Squad.
(c) The Sanitation Squad.
(d) The section commanders.

5. Fedya Shapov had been a member of what league prior to becoming a prisoner?
(a) The Youth League of Russia.
(b) The Young Communist League.
(c) The Imperialist League.
(d) The Red Power League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the needles of the dwarf cedar tree taken to?

2. In "Prosthetic Appliances," what would a guard mark a cell with if the cell was not to receive hot food?

3. What are the bathhouse sessions referred to in "In the Bathhouse"?

4. What was the last thing that Golubev said in "A Piece of Meat"?

5. What did Potashnikov receive for dinner at the end of "Carpenters"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the extra food give the sectarian the energy to do in "Quiet"?

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

3. What hypothesis was tested in the story "Quiet"?

4. How did the story "Sententious" end?

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

6. Why did Merzlakov fake a back injury in "Shock Therapy"?

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

8. Why did Garkunov die at the end of "On Tick"?

9. In "The Bathhouse," why was lice a relative concept to most convicts?

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

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