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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 was the name of Golubev's boss in "Magic"?
(a) Stiffern.
(b) Kindner.
(c) Stukov.
(d) Flakov.

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

3. What was the name of the guard with the bright-blue eyes in "My First Tooth"?
(a) Sherbakov.
(b) Gusev.
(c) Noken.
(d) Siberkov.

4. What did Nikishov claim was different about Kolyma? ("Chief of Political Control.")
(a) Its strength.
(b) Its power.
(c) Its prisoners.
(d) Its morality.

5. What had the narrator written complaints about? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")
(a) Weather work conditions.
(b) Bread rations.
(c) Bunk conditions.
(d) Guard beatings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to "The Lawyers' Plot," how many paths led out of the mine?

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

4. What time was the narrator to go see Romanov in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Golubev watch Stukov's "game" with pleasure? ("Magic.")

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

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

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

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

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

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