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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 train station was the location of "The Train" ?

2. What occupation did Golubev's boss ask if any of the new prisoners had held? ("Magic.")

3. How long had the bodies been in the mass grave? ("Land-Lease.")

4. What did the chief, in "Chief of Political Control," refuse in place of doing business first?

5. What kind of underwear had the narrator not worn in years? ("The Train.")

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In "A Child's Drawing," why did the convicts stand in groups of five when guards were dividing out work assignments?

10. Why did Gusev break the window in the basement of the former monastery? ("My First Tooth.")

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Based upon the text, what three things do you think that the forced-laborers in Kolyma needed to survive? Find three different needs and explain why they were necessary for survival in Kolyma.

Essay Topic 3

Based off of the text as a whole, describe the kind of life that a man in the Kloyma forced-labor camps lived. What did their days consist of? What were their fears? What was expected of them? How were they treated?

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