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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Part 7 | Chapter 6, Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the local anti-Semite group called?
(a) The Black Renegades.
(b) The Black Hundreds.
(c) The Black Panthers.
(d) The Black Knights.

2. According to the boy's mother, what does Zhenia see when he looks in Yakov's apartment?
(a) Bottles of blood.
(b) A cache of weapons.
(c) Piles of money.
(d) Robes of a rabbi.

3. According to the prosecutor in the courtroom, what punishment is Yakov facing?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Ten years of hard labor.
(c) A lifetime in solitary confinement.
(d) Twenty-five years in prison.

4. What does Yakov use to keep track of the days in his cell?
(a) Rocks and nails.
(b) Hash marks.
(c) Pen and paper.
(d) Sticks and splinters.

5. With nothing to do in his cell, Yakov pieces together bits of something that he recites in his cell. What does he piece together?
(a) Commandments.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Laws.
(d) Prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though Yakov is desperately ill and not allowed access to the prison hospital, the prison doctor does tell him how to be cured. What is the doctor's advice?

2. When Bibikov comes to the prison to question Yakov, who does Bibikov believe is actually responsible for Zhenia's murder?

3. As Yakov reflects on his time with Raisl, how does he characterize their early life together?

4. When Nikolai offers Yakov another position after Yakov fixes up the apartment, what is the position that Nikolai offers to Yakov?

5. In order to make Yakov appear like a Hasidic Jew, what does the Deputy Warden refuse to let Yakov do?

(see the answer key)

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