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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. What stands in the center of the prison settlement?
(a) A totem pole
(b) The countess' tower
(c) A gullotine
(d) The kitchens

2. Which of the circus folk does the outlaw leader want to see in his hut?
(a) Kearney
(b) Mignon
(c) Sybil
(d) Fevvers

3. What is the only other creature alive?
(a) Lions
(b) Tigers
(c) Elephants
(d) Monkeys

4. What do the female prison escapees want the Escapee to donate?
(a) A thousand roubles
(b) His sperm
(c) A rib
(d) His soul

5. What does Lizzie say that Walser no longer has?
(a) Clothes
(b) Love and understanding
(c) A human soul
(d) Memory or sense

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lizzie ask Walser to deliver?

2. On what part of his body has Walser suffered an injury?

3. What does Walser call Olga?

4. How does Olga break the camp's code of conduct?

5. What language does the outlaw leader talk to Fevvers in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the character do to occupy themselves on the train ride?

2. Why have the outlaws been banished?

3. What world has Walser's amnesia submerged him in?

4. What is happening to Fevvers in book 3, chapter 9?

5. How does Fevvers greed blind her to her problems in book 2 chapter 11?

6. Describe the women's prison camp.

7. How is the concept of space and time explored in this chapter?

8. What do you think is significant about the reindeer in book 3, chapter 8?

9. What do the Siberian tribes people believe about an expecting mother?

10. Why do you think Buffo cannot continue to be a clown?

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