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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elgen like compared to Kolyma?
(a) Much worse.
(b) It is very small in comparison.
(c) The work is much easier.
(d) About the same.

2. Where is Ginzburg assigned?
(a) To the camp library.
(b) To the laundry rooms.
(c) To the children's hospital.
(d) To the kitchen crew.

3. What is Ginzburg allowed at Magadan Infirmary?
(a) To take baths.
(b) To receive letters from home.
(c) To help care for the patients.
(d) To eat better.

4. What is Julia determined to see?
(a) Her husband again.
(b) The New Year.
(c) Her children grow up.
(d) Her grandchildren again.

5. What has Julia been saving?
(a) Her commissary coupons.
(b) Her grandchildren's letters.
(c) All the letters from her husband.
(d) Butter and sugar.

6. Why are Ginzburg and the others put in punishment cells?
(a) They sing while working.
(b) They are not cutting enough trees.
(c) They gripe about the cold.
(d) They talk too much among themselves.

7. Who puts on a show for the camp?
(a) No one.
(b) Prisoners in Ginzburg's hut.
(c) Soviets in the nearby town.
(d) Prisoners in Hut 7.

8. Where is Ginzburg sent to work?
(a) Weaving coop.
(b) Farm fields.
(c) Mines.
(d) Quarries.

9. Of what does Nabob accuse Ginzburg?
(a) Buying more than her rations of things from the commissary.
(b) Writing and passing notes to other prisoners.
(c) Singing in her cell.
(d) Hoarding food.

10. What does Yaroslavsky open the cell window to give Ginzburg?
(a) A note from the woman in the cell next door.
(b) Words of encouragement.
(c) A book.
(d) A letter.

11. What do Ginzburg and Julia see in the courtyard where they are walking?
(a) A snake.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A flower.
(d) A cat.

12. About what do the female prisoners disagree?
(a) The need to "behave."
(b) The need for purges.
(c) The innate goodness of humanity.
(d) Stalin.

13. What does Vasily Petukhov notice when he sees Ginzburg?
(a) She resembles her son.
(b) She never cries out when he beats her.
(c) She should already have been realeased.
(d) She is able to read and write fluently.

14. What strikes Ginzburg when talking with Tulub?
(a) Tulub is so optimistic despite everything she's been through.
(b) Tulub has such a strong faith in a god force.
(c) Ginzburg feels that Ginzburg's life story Ginzburg is telling is someone else's.
(d) Tulub still believes in the greater good of Communism.

15. In what month and year are Ginzburg and the others transferred?
(a) May, 1937.
(b) July, 1939.
(c) July, 1936.
(d) November, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to what they see?

2. What is different about the women in Hut 7?

3. Whom does Ginzburg finally meet face-to-face?

4. Why does Ginzburg consider herself lucky as far as her sentence?

5. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?

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