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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many carpenters were allowed to be retained in "Magic"?
(a) 50.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 25.

2. In 1939, what quarantine had the narrator and five others endured? ("Esperanto.")
(a) TB.
(b) Measles.
(c) The plague.
(d) Typhoid.

3. What did Nikishov claim was different about Kolyma? ("Chief of Political Control.")
(a) Its power.
(b) Its prisoners.
(c) Its strength.
(d) Its morality.

4. What was the Convict Injector to be replaced with? ("The Injector")
(a) A new injector.
(b) A civilian employee.
(c) An older injector.
(d) Nothing.

5. What were contained in the "magical jars" in the story "Land-Lease"?
(a) Pickles.
(b) Vienna Sausages.
(c) Spam.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reminded the narrator of "Esperanto"?

2. What color was the notebook that the men found in "A Child's Drawing"?

3. How many mechanics were allowed to be retained in "Magic"?

4. Before 1938, according to "Land-Lease," what was used to move logs?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the narrator shocked by about the blade of the bulldozer? ("Land-Lease.")

2. What about the Senior Supervisor-Ministry of Internal Affairs' name impressed the narrator in "The Lawyer's Plot"?

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

4. In "A Child's Drawing," why did the convicts stand in groups of five when guards were dividing out work assignments?

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

6. What was Kudinov's reasoning for why the convict work gang #4 stood idol on November 12th? ("The Injector.")

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

8. What happened to the Spam that was sent to the camps from America? ("Land-Lease.")

9. What game did the lieutenant and the narrator play during "The Train"?

10. Where did the narrator hide his money during his train ride? ("The Train.")

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