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