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OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS James 1. What job was Sukhov’s gang trying to avoid being assigned to? 2. What is so special about Sukhov’s spoon? 3. What profession did Sukhov’s wife want him to pursue? 4. What was unusual about the frisking before they went out to work on that day? 5. When the Captain said the Volkovoy wasn’t a communist, what was his punishment? Victor 1. What is the number of Shukhov’s gang ? 2. Who lives in the Barracks 6? 3. Why does Shukhov want to be sick ? 4. Of which food is the prisoner’s ration one pound per meal? 5. What are the benefits of being a HQ prisoner? Haruka 1. How long has Tiurin been in prison? 2. Who was Shukhov's first squad leader? 3. What is Shukhov's "little baby"? 4. What is the new doctor's policy? 5. What happened to the old floor scrubber? ESSAY QUESTIONS James 1. Shukhov seems to display spiteful behavior when he splashes water over a path used by his superiors. Analyze the implications of this behavior. 2. Did Shukhov actually expect to get on the sick list, or did he purposely delude himself about the possibility? Support your statement with details from the text. 3. What human quality does Fetyukov represent in this story? Victor 1. Why hasn’t Shukhov committed suicide? 2. Shukhov gets great pleasure from eating mitters and sleeping. Why can’t we do that ? 3. Why is this novel politically relevant? Haruka 1. Why is the camp building 'The Socialist Way of Life' in regard with its name, the politics, and ideology behind it? 2. Is Ivan Denisovich sane? 3. How are hierarchies developed in the prison? Do they apply to our societies too?

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questions about the pre=work period in the book "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Useful for review and study.

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Page 1: ADITLOID Pre-work Questions

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS James 

1. What job was Sukhov’s gang trying to avoid being assigned to? 2. What is so special about Sukhov’s spoon? 3.  What profession did Sukhov’s wife want him to pursue? 4.  What was unusual about the frisking before they went out to work on that day? 5.  When the Captain said the Volkovoy wasn’t a communist, what was his punishment? 

Victor 1.  What is the number of Shukhov’s gang ? 2.  Who lives in the Barracks 6? 3. Why does Shukhov want to be sick ?  4. Of which food is the prisoner’s ration one pound per meal?  5. What are the benefits of being a HQ prisoner?   

Haruka 1. How long has Tiurin been in prison?  2. Who was Shukhov's first squad leader? 3. What is Shukhov's "little baby"?  4. What is the new doctor's policy?  5.  What happened to the old floor scrubber?  

 ESSAY QUESTIONS James 

1. Shukhov seems to display spiteful behavior when he splashes water over a path used by his superiors. Analyze the implications of this behavior. 

2. Did Shukhov actually expect to get on the sick list, or did he purposely delude himself about the possibility? Support your statement with details from the text. 

3. What human quality does Fetyukov represent in this story?  Victor 

1.  Why hasn’t Shukhov committed suicide?  2.  Shukhov gets great pleasure from eating mitters and sleeping. Why can’t we do that ?  3.  Why is this novel politically relevant? 

 Haruka 

1. Why is the camp building 'The Socialist Way of Life' in regard with its name, the politics, and ideology behind it?   

2.  Is Ivan Denisovich sane?   3.  How are hierarchies developed in the prison? Do they apply to our societies too?  

     

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ANSWERS  OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS ANSWERS James 

1. Building the Soviet Socialist Development Center (p.4) 2. He made it himself from aluminum wire and cast it in sand at Ust­Izhma in 1944 (p.16) 3. A “carpet” painter (p.46) 4.  The prisoners had to open their jackets and shirts (p.37) 5. 10 days solitary confinement, but he still had to work. (p.38) 

Victor 1. 104 (p.3) 2. Invalids and men who could not work off the compound. (p.13) 3. to lie in bed and avoid work (p.16) 4. bread (p.19) 5.  easier jobs (p.7) 

Haruka 1. 19 years (p.37) 2. Kuziomin (p.18) 3. His handmade spoon (p.28) 4. He thinks work is the best medicine, so he doesn't let patients lie in bed. (p.33) 5. He got a big head because he heard about things even guards didn't know and began to 

think the guards beneath him. After that the guards realized and started asking other prisoners to do the task. (p.23)