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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 is Nina in prison?
(a) For failing to denounce someone who denounces Stalin.
(b) Her boyfriend is in a conspiracy group.
(c) Her mother said negative things about Stalin.
(d) Her brother denounced Stalin and Nina does not report him.

2. What happens when Ginzburg exercises in her cell?
(a) She gets bad shin splints from the stone floor.
(b) She slips on the stone.
(c) She gets sick from breathing the moldy air.
(d) She is told it is forbidden.

3. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?
(a) It is Ginzburg's last day to teach.
(b) It is the day Ginzburg was imprisoned.
(c) It is Ginzburg's birthday.
(d) It is Ginzburg's wedding anniversary day.

4. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?
(a) The rats gnawing on the pallets.
(b) Screams from torturing going on.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Old pipes rattling.

5. Who is Yefrem?
(a) A secret police guard.
(b) One of Ginzburg's former students.
(c) A man who offers the prisoners some food when the truck is stopped.
(d) A driver of the Black Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginzburg view the hearings against her and others?

2. What does Tsarevsky say about Elvov?

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

4. What happens on Red Army Day?

5. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?

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