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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginzburg's visitor tell her?
(a) Her son is still very ill.
(b) Her children are well.
(c) She needs to eat.
(d) She is having an appeal filed.

2. Why are Julia and Ginzburg put outside for an hour and a half?
(a) So they can get some Vitamin D from the sunshine.
(b) So the guards can contain the fire.
(c) So the other prisoners do not hear them complain.
(d) So the guards can hose down the cells.

3. What helps Ginzburg sleep?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Praying.
(c) Composing mental poetry.
(d) Singing.

4. What happens that brightens the prisoners' lives?
(a) The library is reopened.
(b) They are allowed weekly visitors.
(c) They are allowed monthly visitors.
(d) They receive reductions in their sentences for good behavior.

5. From where is Tulub?
(a) Minsk.
(b) Slovakia.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) The Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who puts on a show for the camp?

2. Who is Pickwick?

3. With what are Ginzburg and Julia becoming disillusioned?

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

5. Why are Ginzburg and the others put in punishment cells?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon what does Ginzburg reflect when she hears that Lenin's widow has died?

2. When is Ginzburg freed and what does she persist in believing in despite her life in prison?

3. What new rule is forced upon the prisoners and how do they react to the restriction?

4. Why does Vasily Petukhov decide to help Ginzburg survive?

5. What does Ginzburg say about the ongoing political purges and how do some of the prisoners view the likely incarceration of some of those fallen under the most recent purges?

6. Why is Ginzburg taken to see Nabob and what happens?

7. What small joy do Ginzburg and the other prisoners enjoy when the Black Maria is late?

8. What is it like for Ginzburg in her cell at the prison?

9. About what do the female prisoners disagree during their discussions on the train ride?

10. How does Ginzburg offer an act of forgiveness for the man who labeled Ginzburg a terrorist?

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