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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus have to eat when Emmie comes into his cell?
(a) Sweet rolls and orange juice.
(b) Eggs and bacon.
(c) Hot chocolate and toast.
(d) Coffee and cereal.

2. What does Rodion do while Cincinnatus looks out over the landscape?
(a) He washes dishes.
(b) He paints.
(c) He washes windows.
(d) He sweeps.

3. What animal arrives with Marthe and her family?
(a) A black cat.
(b) An albino rat.
(c) An iguana.
(d) A bulldog.

4. What does Cincinnatus repeat?
(a) There is nothing in this world.
(b) There is something I know.
(c) All is false and illusory.
(d) There is something missing.

5. After Emmie leaves his cell, what does Cincinnatus start philosophizing about in his pile of books?
(a) A large hardcover volume missing the rest of the set.
(b) A collection of newspaper clippings.
(c) A small pamphlet.
(d) An old magazine.

6. What additional news does Cincinnatus get at the same time?
(a) He will be moved to a roomier cell.
(b) He will be given an extra daily dessert.
(c) He will be allowed to choose the time of his execution.
(d) He will be allowed to meet with his wife.

7. What words does Cincinnatus see written on the wall of the hallway?
(a) Look up.
(b) Give up already.
(c) Testing brush.
(d) No one was here.

8. Where does Rodion tell Cincinnatus to go while his cell is cleaned?
(a) To another cell.
(b) Out in the hall.
(c) Down to the guards' quarters.
(d) Up to the roof.

9. What happens when M'sieur Pierre sits down?
(a) He bends his body as if sitting but floats an inch above the chair seat.
(b) The chair is too weak and the seat cracks beneath him.
(c) The chair is too deep and he must sit on the forward edge.
(d) His legs do not reach the floor.

10. What does Cincinnatus do to try and look out the window?
(a) He stands on a table.
(b) He climbs up the wall.
(c) He jumps up in the air.
(d) He crawls through a tunnel.

11. What color is the letter Cincinnatus receives when he wakes?
(a) Ebony.
(b) Vermillion.
(c) Taupe.
(d) Lilac.

12. Which way does Rodion sharpen a pencil?
(a) Alternately away from himself and toward himself with a knife.
(b) With his teeth.
(c) Toward himself with a knife.
(d) Away from himself with a knife.

13. When does Pierre say that prison escapes happen?
(a) When the guards are lax.
(b) Only in fairy tales.
(c) Only at night.
(d) When you are unjustly accused.

14. What does the director say is wrong with Roman Vissarionovich?
(a) He has a bad cold.
(b) He fell down the stairs.
(c) He has laryngitis.
(d) He has pneumonia.

15. When did Cincinnatus first meet his mother?
(a) When he was five.
(b) In his teens.
(c) In his twenties.
(d) In his thirties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides blades, what does Rodion's penknife have?

2. When Cincinnatus asks the prison director when his execution will be, what answer does the director give?

3. What does the librarian refuse to do?

4. What does Cincinnatus think would be necessary for Emmie to rescue him?

5. What unnatural event from Cincinnatus' childhood does he describe?

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