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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Garkunov have under his dirty undershirt?

2. What did the sectarian need his extra portion of food to do? ("Quiet.")

3. What did Potashnikov receive for dinner at the end of "Carpenters"?

4. What prints did the men in "Dry Rations" follow to get to the spring?

5. What did the narrator say that he refused to listen to? ("Sententious.")

Short Essay Questions

1. What question did the new arrivals ask of the old convicts in "Major Pugachov's Last Battle"?

2. What happened to Grigoriev and Potashnikov after the foreman found out that they were not carpenters?

3. What hypothesis was tested in the story "Quiet"?

4. What plans did Bagretsov have for the underwear that he took off of the corpse?

5. What was the "circle" that was created regarding the relationship between work and food in "Shock Therapy"?

6. Why did Garkunov die at the end of "On Tick"?

7. What notations did the guards, described in "Prosthetic Appliances", use to show that a convict would not receive hot food and/or bread?

8. Why was the Siberian dwarf cedar called a "weatherman" by the narrator?

9. How did the story "Sententious" end?

10. What prosthetics were collected by the guards in "Prosthetic Appliances"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Given the dehumanizing circumstances that the narrator relayed throughout the text, many instances of true humanity shone through. Discuss three examples where humanity won out over animalistic behavior in the text.

Essay Topic 2

In "Quiet," an particular irony was set up. One of the camp administrators believed that "a man will eat and in gratitude work better for the state." In what circumstances did this statement prove to be false? In what circumstances did this statement prove to be true? What was the determining factor in the truth behind the statement?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the guards in the stories are described by their attitudes towards the camp convicts. Describe the different ways that guards were described, how these descriptions mandated how convicts felt about the guards, and how the convicts acted around different guards based upon their dispositions.

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