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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lend-Lease, Condensed Milk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the sectarian need his extra portion of food to do? ("Quiet.")
(a) Lok forward to the next day.
(b) Get a good nights rest.
(c) Decide to die.
(d) Find hope in life.

2. What did "Carpenters" state men were not shown?
(a) The food trucks.
(b) Where the blankets were.
(c) A thermometer.
(d) A clock.

3. What did Andrei Platonov do prior to being in the camps?
(a) He was a novelist.
(b) He was a movie scriptwriter.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a doctor.

4. What did Golubev's boss rely on to choose workers to stay at his camp?( "Magic.")
(a) "A hidden listing of occupations."
(b) "A slight of the hand by the handlers."
(c) "Special powers."
(d) "A reliance on fate."

5. In "Major Pugachov's Last Battle," what keys did Gorbunov come to the guardhouse to get?
(a) The bathhouse keys.
(b) The food storeroom keys.
(c) The grain room keys.
(d) The clothing room keys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was raked into Shemolyov's work gang? ("The Lawyers' Plot.")

2. What was the only way that prisoners could stand by the stove in "Quiet"?

3. Where, in "Magic," was Golubev summoned to?

4. What dessert were the prisoners fed in "Quiet"?

5. At the beginning of "In The Night," what had just ended?

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