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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 was a "kolymka"?

2. In "Carpenters," for how long had the fog been so thick that a man was not able to be seen from "two paces away"?

3. In "In The Night," what were Glebov and Bagretsov looking for?

4. For Potashnikov, how long did his breakfast sustain his work? ("Carpenters.")

5. Which of the following instruments were allowed to be used by political prisoners when under the watch of the worst camp heads?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the narrator state that love was the hardest emotion to return to convicts? ("Sententious.")

2. Why did the convicts that had been in the camps take their bread back to their barracks? ("Major Pugachov's Last Battle")

3. In the story "In The Night," how did Bagretsov cut his finger?

4. Who did Gloubev recognize in the hospital as he was recovering from his appendectomy? ("A Piece of Meat.")

5. What did Savelev do after finding Ivanovich hung himself?

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

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

8. Why did Merzlakov fake a back injury in "Shock Therapy"?

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

10. What materials were needed to make the playing cards that the men in "On Tick" used?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the impact that the text had on you. Did you feel as though the text was a stretch of the truth? Did you feel as though the information given by the author was truthful and realistic? Support your focus with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 3

Many of the men in the forced-labor camps of Kolyma changed during their stay. Choose of of the people described in the text and discuss how they changed because of their stay at Kolyma.

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