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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. In "Magic," what object was tapping on the window?
(a) A cat.
(b) A stick.
(c) A tree branch.
(d) A bird.

2. Why was the window in the basement broken? ("My First Tooth.")
(a) To throw out the dead bodies.
(b) To get snow to melt to drink.
(c) To get fresh air.
(d) To try to escape.

3. Who, upon growing up, "created many bright birds"? ("A Child's Drawing.")
(a) The narrator.
(b) The child.
(c) God.
(d) The narrator's brother.

4. What color armbands did the military patrol wear at the train station? ("The Train.")
(a) Grey.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Navy.

5. What did Praga, in "Esperanto," do to his clothing?
(a) Traded it for extra soup.
(b) Tore it into rags.
(c) Traded it for tobacco.
(d) Burned it.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "The Train," where did the narrator state that he was returning from?

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

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

4. From where did the new group of prisoners come from? ("Magic.")

5. What was Romanov's real occupation? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Sazonov directed to the poorer hut in "My First Tooth"?

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

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

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

5. In "A Child's Drawing," why did the convicts stand in groups of five when guards were dividing out work assignments?

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

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

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

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

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

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