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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 39, Next Year in Jerusalem | Part I, Chapter 40, Day after Day, Month after Month.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?
(a) Honest but flawed.
(b) Corrupt and hypocritical.
(c) Self-serving.
(d) They are conducted by incompetent judges.

2. Why does Ginzburg consider herself lucky as far as her sentence?
(a) She could have been given as much as "Grandma" Nastya received.
(b) The communists had not started the mandatory twenty-five year sentences.
(c) The terrorist aspect of the charge was dropped or she might have received life.
(d) She received less than her husband.

3. What does the lack enable?
(a) Scurvy and other diseases.
(b) Prisoners to communicate freely.
(c) A sense of despair that they are killing the older party members.
(d) Cruel treatment by the guards and prisoners.

4. Why does Ginzburg believe she was lucky not to have signed anything?
(a) A woman who did so is executed.
(b) When Stalin is out of power, she might have been ostracized.
(c) She might have been sent to a worse prison.
(d) She might have received a longer sentence.

5. What is returned to Ginzburg?
(a) Her watch.
(b) Her dentures.
(c) Her papers.
(d) Her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginzburg observe when she arrives in Moscow?

2. What happens when Ginzburg and Karepova are put in a cell together?

3. When is the worse time for Ginzburg at the prison?

4. Why does Pitkovskaya condemn her husband?

5. What is Ginzburg told in the meeting?

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