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A) Based on shared political views B) Purely intellectual C) Mostly physical D) Deeply spiritual
A) Doctor and researcher B) Nurse and medical student C) Surgeon and administrator D) Pharmacist and lab technician
A) A fellow patient in the hospital B) One of Kostoglotov's doctors C) A visitor from the zoo D) A head nurse in the cancer ward
A) Secretly engaged to an exile B) Middle-aged and has never married C) Young and recently divorced D) Widowed with several children
A) Because he is still recovering from a major surgery B) Because he lost his wallet at the train station C) Because the hospital demanded they monitor him D) Because he has nowhere to sleep due to his exile status
A) To travel with her to Ush-Terek immediately B) To write political poetry about her beauty C) To buy her expensive gifts from the city market D) To lie at her feet like a beaten dog and breathe on her feet
A) He can easily integrate back into normal society B) The damage done was too great, and there will be no healing now that Stalin has gone C) Russia is finally recovering and a golden age of freedom has begun D) Stalin's absence will instantly cure all societal ailments
A) To the railway station in Ush-Terek B) To a government office for exile registration C) To a zoo D) Back to his apartment in Moscow
A) People he knew B) Foreign leaders C) The doctors from the ward D) His prison guards
A) Because he was afraid of being arrested by the zookeepers B) Because the cages were locked with unbreakable steel C) Because deprived of their home surroundings, they had lost the idea of rational freedom D) Because the animals looked completely happy in captivity
A) An evil man threw tobacco into its eyes B) It stared directly into the glaring sun C) It contracted a severe disease from a visitor D) It was part of a cruel medical experiment
A) The absence of propaganda B) The poor spelling in the note C) The mention of Stalin's name D) The fact that it was written in English
A) As a victim of the political regime B) As an anti-humanist propagandist C) As just an evil man D) As an agent of American imperialism
A) He decides against going to see them B) He decides to marry Zoya immediately C) He goes to Zoya's apartment for dinner D) He sends them both a formal invitation
A) They have a wonderful evening and make plans to wed B) He gets lost and never reaches her apartment C) She slams the door in his face because he is late D) He has left it so late that she is no longer there, and he decides not to try again
A) His voice will be completely destroyed B) Hormone therapy may have left him impotent C) His legs will remain paralyzed D) He might lose his eyesight permanently
A) To demand compensation from the hospital B) To travel the world with Zoya C) To fight for a high-ranking political position D) To accept less than he had hoped for and face it alone
A) Back to the cancer ward to ask for more treatment B) To the local police station to report his exile status C) To the railway station to fight his way onto a train to Ush-Terek D) To a hotel in the center of the city
A) The hometown of Vera Gangart B) The capital city where he was born C) A famous health resort in the mountains D) The distant village to which he had been exiled
A) That she will come to bless the day she did not commit to share his life B) That he blames her for his impotence C) That he is moving to America to escape his past D) That he is returning to the hospital to marry her
A) That he planned to steal her apartment B) That he always wanted to pick her up and kiss her on the lips C) That he wanted to borrow money from her for his train ticket D) That he hated her intellectual conversations
A) A squalid hospital B) A GULAG prison camp C) A luxury sanatorium D) A botanical garden
A) Tashkent B) Leningrad C) Kislovodsk D) Kazakhstan
A) Tashkent B) Kislovodsk C) Leningrad D) Kazakhstan
A) Moscow B) Tashkent C) Leningrad D) Kislovodsk
A) Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov B) Jeffrey Meyers C) The clinic doctor D) Kostoglotov
A) Military general B) Personnel officer C) Natural healer D) Literary critic
A) Mirabad Amusement Park B) Issyk-Kul Lake C) Chorsu Bazaar D) Red Square
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C) Leo Tolstoy D) Anton Chekhov
A) Booker Prize B) Pulitzer Prize C) Nobel Prize D) Man Booker International Prize
A) 1966 B) 1955 C) 1968 D) 1936
A) Radio broadcasts B) State-run newspapers C) Official state publishing houses D) Samizdat
A) 1970 B) 1966 C) 1968 D) 1956
A) Times Literary Supplement B) The New York Times C) The Guardian D) London Review of Books
A) Macmillan B) Penguin Books C) HarperCollins D) The Bodley Head
A) Simon & Schuster B) Random House C) Doubleday D) Dial Press
A) Ward 20 B) Ward 5 C) Ward 13 D) Ward 7
A) Moscow B) Tashkent C) Leningrad D) Kiev
A) Georgian SSR B) Soviet Uzbekistan C) Byelorussian SSR D) Ukrainian SSR
A) 1968 B) 1955 C) 1966 D) 1936
A) Andrei Rublev B) Oleg Kostoglotov C) Ivan Denisovich D) Yuri Zhivago
A) Economic saboteur B) Foreign spy C) Double agent D) Counter-revolutionary
A) Article 10 B) Article 120 C) Article 58 D) Article 42
A) 1924–1928 B) 1941–1945 C) 1950–1953 D) 1936–1938
A) Protest outside the courthouse B) Demand the firing squad C) Remain completely silent D) Sign petitions for pardon
A) Lavrenti Beria B) Genrikh Yagoda C) Viktor Abakumov D) Nikolai Yezhov
A) Georgy Malenkov B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Mikhail Gorbachev D) Nikita Khrushchev
A) 1966 B) 1956 C) 1953 D) 1955
A) Vyacheslav Molotov B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Georgy Malenkov D) Lavrenti Beria
A) The camp guard B) The censor C) The political prisoner D) The average worker
A) The tiger B) The bear C) The macaque D) The squirrel
A) The political elite B) The proletariat C) The camp inmates D) The secret police
A) Late 1964 B) Mid-1968 C) Early 1965 D) Mid-1966
A) Novy Mir B) Dial Press C) Times Literary Supplement D) The Bodley Head
A) Tvardosky B) Lev Leonidovich C) Joseph Pearce D) Kostoglotov
A) St. Petersburg B) London C) Moscow D) Leningrad
A) Vera Kornilyevna B) Solzhenitsyn C) Joseph Pearce D) Tvardosky
A) A Japanese journalist B) A British editor C) An American publisher D) A French novelist
A) Vera Kornilyevna Gangart B) Olympiada Vladislavovna C) Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova D) Yevgenia Ustinovna
A) Vera Kornilyevna Gangart B) Yevgenia Ustinovna C) Zoya D) Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova
A) Olympiada Vladislavovna B) Nellya C) Elizaveta Anatolyevna D) Zoya
A) Tvardosky B) Nizamutdin Bahramovich C) Lev Leonidovich D) Joseph Pearce
A) Vera Kornilyevna B) Yevgenia Ustinovna C) Zoya D) Olympiada Vladislavovna
A) Clinic director B) Radiotherapy head C) Head surgeon D) Food orderly
A) Olympiada Vladislavovna B) Zoya C) Elizaveta Anatolyevna D) Nellya
A) Joseph Pearce B) Nizamutdin Bahramovich C) Tvardosky D) Lev Leonidovich
A) Zoya B) Olympiada Vladislavovna C) Elizaveta Anatolyevna D) Nellya
A) Heart breaker B) Soul stealer C) Bone swallower D) Life taker
A) Ush Terek B) Moscow C) Siberia D) Leningrad
A) Spinal cancer B) Lymphoma C) Rectal cancer D) Melanoblastoma
A) Maika B) Alla Pavlovna C) Ludmilla Afanasyevna D) Kapitolina Matveyevna
A) Librarian B) Geologist C) Doctor D) Prosecutor
A) Spinal cancer B) Lymphoma C) Rectal cancer D) Melanoblastoma
A) Librarian B) Overseer C) Geologist D) Smuggler
A) Lymphoma B) Melanoblastoma C) Rectal cancer D) Spinal cancer
A) Librarian B) Student C) Gymnast D) Poet
A) Mastectomy B) Amputation of her leg C) Brain surgery D) Removal of a tumor
A) Ahmadjan B) Maxim Petrovich Chaly C) Sharaf Sibgatov D) Yefrem Podduyev
A) Lymphoma B) Melanoblastoma C) Crippling spinal cancer D) Rectal cancer
A) Sharaf Sibgatov B) Ahmadjan C) Friedrich Federau D) Yefrem Podduyev
A) Tatar B) Ukrainian C) Russian German D) Uzbek
A) Lavrentiy Beria B) Anton Chekhov C) Fyodor Dostoevsky D) Leo Tolstoy
A) Strong overseer B) Prison camp guard C) Smuggler D) Geologist
A) Maxim Petrovich Chaly B) Dr. Maslennikov C) Friedrich Federau D) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov
A) Geologist B) Prison camp guard C) Librarian D) Smuggler
A) Maxim Petrovich Chaly B) Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov C) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov D) Dr. Maslennikov
A) The Oreshchenkovs B) The Federaus C) The Kadmins D) The Rusanovs
A) Aviette, a poet B) Maika, a gymnast C) Ludmilla, a doctor D) Kapitolina, a librarian
A) Prosecutor B) Smuggler C) Geologist D) Overseer
A) Dr. Maslennikov B) Aleksei Filippovich Shulubin C) Ludmilla Afanasyevna D) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov
A) Mineral extract B) Mountain herb C) A type of root D) Birch fungus |