Quiz

Questions

1. What wakes Shukhov up?
2. What is Alyoshka doing when Shukhov wakes up?
3. What is Shukhov's prison number?
4. What punishment does the Tartar give to Shukhov for sleeping in late?
5. What temperature must it be for the prisoners to get off work?
6. What punishment does the Tartar give Shukhov in the Wardens' Clubhouse?
7. When did Shukhov last see his wife?
8. What caused Shukhov's lisp?
9. Who is minding Shukhov's breakfast?
10. What do prisoners have to take off when they see a warden?
11. What does Stepan Gigorich think is the best cure for illness?
12. Why did Vdovushkin lie to become a medical orderly?
13. How many grams of bread do prisoners get each day?
14. Why does Alyoshka hide his Bible before work?
15. Who is the camp disciplinary officer?
16. What punishment does Buynovsky receive for yelling at Volkovoy?
17. How many letters is Shukhov allowed to write each year?
18. What job does Shukhov's wife want him to have when he gets out of prison?
19. Why was Senka Klevshin sent to the gulag?
20. Why was Shukhov arrested?
21. What signals the end of the work day?
22. Why is the Captain annoyed with Shukhov's village beliefs and stories?
23. What item does Shukhov carry through the search point?
24. Why is Yu-81 a legendary zek?
25. How does Shukhov earn money in the gulag?
26. Why does Alyoshka say he's glad to be in jail?
27. What does Tsezar give Shukhov near the end of the novel?
28. What does Shukhov give to Alyoshka near the end of the novel?
29. How many days are in Shukhov's prison sentence?

Answers

1. Someone banging a hammer outside
2. Saying his morning prayers
3. Scha-854
4. Three days in the hole
5. 41 degrees below zero
6. Cleaning the floor
7. 1941
8. Scurvy
9. Fetyukov
10. Their hats
11. Hard work
12. He wanted time to work on his poems.
13. 550
14. Bibles are not allowed in the camp.
15. Lieutenant Volkovoy
16. Ten days in the hole
17. Two
18. Traveling carpet salesman
19. He had contact with foreigners in a concentration camp.
20. The Soviets beat him up and he falsely confessed to being a Nazi spy.
21. The hammer clanging
22. They aren't scientific.
23. A piece of steel
24. He's been in the camp since the Soviet State existed.
25. Doing side jobs like sewing
26. He thinks jail is a spiritual cleansing experience.
27. Two biscuits, two sugar lumps, and a chunk of sausage
28. A biscuit
29. 3,653