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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 the narrator recall had been confiscated in Magadan? ("Esperanto.")

2. What, in "Land-Lease," was nicknamed "American honey"?

3. Who, upon growing up, "created many bright birds"? ("A Child's Drawing.")

4. What train station was the location of "The Train" ?

5. How much oatmeal did the convicts receive in their portions? ("Land-Lease")

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the narrator in "The Lawyer's Plot," what were the three ways out of the mine?

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

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

7. Why was Golubev called to Stukov's home in "Magic"?

8. What was written on the cell ceiling of the monastery basement? ("My First Tooth.")

9. What did the bulldozer, in "Land-Lease," come to be used for?

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

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

As detailed by the text, men were moved constantly and consistently in and out of different work houses. This change set up for many of the men to find themselves separated from human companionship. In what ways did the text show the breakdown of relationships based upon the experiences in Kolyma?

Essay Topic 3

Objects from the civilian world held great value for the men of Kolyma. Discuss three objects from the civilized world, what was done to keep the object in the possession of the owner, why the owner lost the possession, and how the owner felt about their possession.

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