View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What train station was the location of "The Train" ?
(a) Diertsuv.
(b) Tranpot.
(c) Niemerov.
(d) Irkutsk.

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

3. What was being performed in the camp in "Esperanto"?
(a) "The Tempest."
(b) "A Fig Branch."
(c) "Lemonade."
(d) "Treason."

4. On a how many day march were the men in "My First Tooth" on?
(a) 9 day.
(b) 14 day.
(c) 10 day.
(d) 5 day.

5. What were contained in the "magical jars" in the story "Land-Lease"?
(a) Pickles.
(b) Vienna Sausages.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Spam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month was it in the opening of "My First Tooth"?

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

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

4. What sound did the narrator say was a symbol of the "mainland" for him? ("The Train.")

5. How many years of his life was the narrator ready to forget? ("The Train.")

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Stukov contemptuous and delighted by the shifty-eyed man's admittance about his being an informant? ("Magic")

4. What did the bulldozer, in "Land-Lease," come to be used for?

5. What did Shestakov offer the narrator as nourishment to aid in an upcoming escape attempt? ("Condensed Milk.")

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

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

8. Why was the new chief of political control at the hospital? ("The Chief of Political Control.")

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 760 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample