This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 47, A Bathhouse! Just an Ordinary Bathhouse! | Part I, Chapter 48, The Ruins of Sclusselburg.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the women happy to do?
(a) Cook meals in the kitchen after the cook dies.
(b) Help cut each other's hair.
(c) Clean up the prison grounds for a chance to be outside.
(d) Share what they each have.

2. To what series of books has Elvov contributed an article?
(a) A series on the history of the Communist Party.
(b) A series on the famous writers of Russia.
(c) A series on the fall of Czar Nicholas II.
(d) A series on the famous painters of Russia.

3. What news does Ginzburg get one day in a singing message?
(a) Her son is dead.
(b) Her mother is dead.
(c) Her mother has been arrested.
(d) Her husband has been arrested.

4. How does Ginzburg defend herself?
(a) By saying that her lecture was not about Trotsky.
(b) By saying that Stalin's deputy of foreign affairs gave her the book.
(c) By saying no one in her area has denounced Elvov either.
(d) By saying she was in the hospital and has a note to prove it.

5. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?
(a) Denounces Yaroslavsky.
(b) Denounces her husband.
(c) Curses Stalin.
(d) Tries to kill herself.