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

2. What kind of injection did the chief in "Chief of Political Control" need?
(a) Insulin.
(b) Subcutaneous.
(c) Glucose.
(d) Blood thickener.

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

4. What was the hospital director doing with the doctors at the opening of "Chief of Political Control"?
(a) Watching a surgery.
(b) Complaining about the prisoners.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Playing pool.

5. What did the narrator recall had been confiscated in Magadan? ("Esperanto.")
(a) Fur coats.
(b) Books.
(c) Pants.
(d) Fleece coats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of underwear had the narrator not worn in years? ("The Train.")

2. In Kolyma, what "keeps secrets and reveals them"? ("Land-Lease.")

3. In what year was the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot" born?

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

5. What, in "Chief of Political Control," was summoning the hospital director?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the Spam that was sent to the camps from America? ("Land-Lease.")

4. Why was the narrator afraid to get off of the train at any station other than the Moscow station? ("The Train.")

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

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

7. What was the narrator shocked by about the blade of the bulldozer? ("Land-Lease.")

8. How did the narrator come to remember the story "Esperanto"?

9. How did the narrator describe Romanov in "The Lawyer's Plot"?

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

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