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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 always fail to do in time for dinner? ("Sententious.")
(a) Make bread.
(b) Boil water.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Change clothes.

2. How many men were standing in the corridor awaiting a strip search? ("Prosthetic Appliances.")
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. In "In the Night," what was Glebov in no hurry to swallow?
(a) Jam.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Bread.

4. 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 mouth.
(b) His ears.
(c) His nose.
(d) His eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fedya Shapov had been a member of what league prior to becoming a prisoner?

2. What kind of bird did the narrator say was unafraid of people and could be shot easily? ("Sententious.")

3. What work gang was never worried about in regard to running away? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle.")

4. In "A Piece of Meat," who "offered" a "bloody sacrifice"?

5. What did the two men, from "A Pushover Job," place into the bag of pine needles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did the convicts that had been in the camps take their bread back to their barracks? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle")

6. Given that convicts were not allowed to see a thermometer, how did they know when temperatures reached 60 degrees below zero in "Carpenters"?

7. How did the story "Sententious" end?

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

9. What notations did the guards, described in "Prosthetic Appliances", use to show that a convict would not receive hot food and/or bread?

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

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