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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 33, Five Steps by Three | Part I, Chapter 34, Major Weinstock's Twenty-Two Commandments.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.
(b) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(c) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(d) The warden trips over a threshold.

2. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?
(a) Inciting riots.
(b) Collaborating with the enemy.
(c) Conspiracy.
(d) Teaching heresy.

3. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?
(a) The entire cell block erupts in laughter.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is put in solitary confinement.
(d) She is whipped.

4. Who is Milda?
(a) A young, German opera singer.
(b) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.
(c) An elderly Latvian woman.
(d) One of the female guards.

5. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) To await her sentence.
(b) The charges against her were dropped.
(c) The charges were held in abeyance.
(d) To settle her personal affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?

2. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?

3. Why is Nina in prison?

4. What happens on Red Army Day?

5. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

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