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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 did the Diamond trucks and Studebakers haul along the roads in Kolyma? ("Land-Lease.")
(a) Oats.
(b) Soy.
(c) Corn.
(d) Wheat.

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

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

4. Where, in "Magic," was Golubev summoned to?
(a) The office of the chief.
(b) The supply room.
(c) The guardhouse.
(d) The bathhouse.

5. How much oatmeal did the convicts receive in their portions? ("Land-Lease")
(a) Half a cup.
(b) 1 tablespoon.
(c) One cup.
(d) 2 tablespoons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the narrator written complaints about? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

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

3. What was told, at the end of "The Lawyers' Plot", had happened to Rebrov?

4. Who was Golubev's bosses favorite? ("Magic.")

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Praga, in "Esperanto," hack his clothing to rags?

10. Where did the narrator hide his money during his train ride? ("The Train.")

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