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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 sun had burned the men's faces in "My First Tooth"?
(a) Aphelion sun.
(b) Perihelion sun.
(c) Endergonic sun.
(d) Ural sun.

2. Why had the lawyers in "The Lawyers' Plot" been taken to the House of Vaskov?
(a) To have a last meal.
(b) To be sentenced.
(c) To be shot.
(d) To be released.

3. What time was the narrator to go see Romanov in "The Lawyers' Plot"?
(a) 6:00.
(b) 12:00.
(c) 8:00.
(d) 3:00.

4. Who shoved the narrator up against a window in the basement? ("My First Tooth.")
(a) Demetri.
(b) Trentkov.
(c) Frentscov.
(d) Gusev.

5. What did the narrator state was worse than criminals who robbed him? ("Esperanto.")
(a) The guards.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The food.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once on the train, who did the narrator find in his seat? ("The Train.")

2. What did the chief, in "Chief of Political Control," refuse in place of doing business first?

3. At the end of "Esperanto," what did Skoroseev ask of the narrator after he had spent the night in his (Skoroseev's) home?

4. What did the orderly tell the narrator to bring back from Romanov's home? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

5. What provided unexpected joy for the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the narrator in "My First Tooth" state that it was easier to bear something after you write it down? ("My First Tooth.")

2. What "magical powers" did Stukov have? ("Magic")

3. What about the Senior Supervisor-Ministry of Internal Affairs' name impressed the narrator in "The Lawyer's Plot"?

4. What happened at the end of "Esperanto" to the narrator"?

5. According to the narrator in "The Lawyer's Plot," what were the three ways out of the mine?

6. What did convicts receive as payment for keeping their mouths shut about guards beating them? ("The Chief of Political Control.")

7. What was Kudinov's reasoning for why the convict work gang #4 stood idol on November 12th? ("The Injector.")

8. What was written on the cell ceiling of the monastery basement? ("My First Tooth.")

9. Why was Golubev called to Stukov's home in "Magic"?

10. Why did the narrator decide that he had not been lucky in getting called to Romanov's home? ("The Lawyer's Plot.")

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