Kolyma Tales Test | Final Test - Medium

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Kolyma Tales Test | Final Test - Medium

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

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

3. What was raked into Shemolyov's work gang? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) The deformed.
(b) Professionals.
(c) Human rejects.
(d) Tradesmen.

4. How long had the bodies been in the mass grave? ("Land-Lease.")
(a) Since 1894.
(b) Since 1902.
(c) Since 1938.
(d) Since 1947.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What day was it during "Chief of Political Control"?

2. What did the narrator recall had been confiscated in Magadan? ("Esperanto.")

3. In 1939, what quarantine had the narrator and five others endured? ("Esperanto.")

4. What, in the narrator's language, meant "run off at the mouth"? ("Esperanto.")

5. Before 1938, according to "Land-Lease," what was used to move logs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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