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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. Because of the barrenness of the winter, as described in "A Pushover Job," how far could a person be seen from?
(a) A quarter mile away.
(b) A mile away.
(c) 500 feet away.
(d) Half a mile away.

2. In "Carpenters," for how long had the fog been so thick that a man was not able to be seen from "two paces away"?
(a) 2 days.
(b) A month.
(c) Forever.
(d) One week.

3. Who was denied hot food for refusing to give up his prosthetic arm?
(a) Grisha.
(b) Karavaev.
(c) Shor.
(d) Panin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the narrator compare the hills to in "A Pushover Job"?

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

4. What was a "kolymka"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Platonov decide to tell the thieves a story? ("The Snake Charmer.")

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

4. Who did Gloubev recognize in the hospital as he was recovering from his appendectomy? ("A Piece of Meat.")

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

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

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

8. How did the story "Sententious" end?

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

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

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