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