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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years of his life was the narrator ready to forget? ("The Train.")
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

2. Who shoved the narrator up against a window in the basement? ("My First Tooth.")
(a) Demetri.
(b) Trentkov.
(c) Gusev.
(d) Frentscov.

3. What did the narrator not fear being stolen from him in "The Train"?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Books.

4. What did the narrator call "precious things" in "Esperanto"?
(a) Civilian clothing.
(b) Felt boots.
(c) Convict clothing.
(d) Pea coats.

5. Why did Golubev's boss like him? ("Magic.")
(a) Because he did not accept bribes.
(b) For both reasons listed.
(c) Because he hated drunks.
(d) For none of the reasons listed.

6. Why was the window in the basement broken? ("My First Tooth.")
(a) To get fresh air.
(b) To get snow to melt to drink.
(c) To try to escape.
(d) To throw out the dead bodies.

7. What book set did the narrator plan on buying once he reached Moscow? ("The Train.")
(a) "The Complete Works of Shakespeare."
(b) "The Complete Works of Walt Whitman."
(c) "History of Russia."
(d) "History of WWI."

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

9. What, in the narrator's language, meant "run off at the mouth"? ("Esperanto.")
(a) Ticking.
(b) Squealing.
(c) Drooling
(d) Tetling.

10. What job did Skoroseev volunteer to do since no one else could or would? ("Esperanto.")
(a) Go out into the blizzard for supplies.
(b) Shoe a horse.
(c) Murder the chief.
(d) Butcher a horse.

11. What did the chief, in "Chief of Political Control," refuse in place of doing business first?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Rest.
(d) Drinks.

12. What kind of underwear had the narrator not worn in years? ("The Train.")
(a) Knit underwear.
(b) Silk underwear.
(c) Cotton underwear.
(d) Linen underwear.

13. Before 1938, according to "Land-Lease," what was used to move logs?
(a) Horses.
(b) Trains.
(c) Convicts.
(d) Soliders.

14. What kind of injection did the chief in "Chief of Political Control" need?
(a) Subcutaneous.
(b) Glucose.
(c) Blood thickener.
(d) Insulin.

15. Who reminded the narrator of "Esperanto"?
(a) An escaping convict.
(b) A dying convict.
(c) A wandering actor.
(d) A guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number gang was the director questioning in "The Injector"?

2. What provided unexpected joy for the narrator in "The Lawyers' Plot"?

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

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

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

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