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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 book set did the narrator plan on buying once he reached Moscow? ("The Train.")
(a) "The Complete Works of Shakespeare."
(b) "History of WWI."
(c) "History of Russia."
(d) "The Complete Works of Walt Whitman."

2. According to Golubev's boss in "Magic," who are all of the carpenters?
(a) The peasants.
(b) Those with stitches on their arms.
(c) Those with bruised hands.
(d) The men with belts.

3. How many mechanics were allowed to be retained in "Magic"?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

4. What did the orderly tell the narrator to bring back from Romanov's home? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) A smoke.
(b) A piece of meat.
(c) A beer.
(d) A coat.

5. Before 1938, according to "Land-Lease," what was used to move logs?
(a) Convicts.
(b) Trains.
(c) Horses.
(d) Soliders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month was it in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

2. What number gang was the director questioning in "The Injector"?

3. According to the narrator in "My First Tooth," why is writing something down the best thing to do?

4. What did the narrator state was worse than criminals who robbed him? ("Esperanto.")

5. In "My First Tooth," what was written in coal on the walls of the basement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the convicts unable to eat the horse meat in "Esperanto"?

2. Why did Praga, in "Esperanto," hack his clothing to rags?

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

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

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

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

7. What game did the lieutenant and the narrator play during "The Train"?

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

9. Why did Gusev break the window in the basement of the former monastery? ("My First Tooth.")

10. What bliss did the narrator find while in Irkutsk? ("The Train.")

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