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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 does a Chinese prisoner laugh one day during head count?
(a) The warden trips over a threshold.
(b) One warden continually miscounts the prisoners.
(c) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.
(d) One prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.

2. Why is Ginzburg sent home?
(a) To await her sentence.
(b) To settle her personal affairs.
(c) The charges were held in abeyance.
(d) The charges against her were dropped.

3. Who is Milda?
(a) A prisoner who is in there because the family she worked for were arrested.
(b) A young, German opera singer.
(c) An elderly Latvian woman.
(d) One of the female guards.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on Red Army Day?

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

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

4. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?

5. Who is Yefrem?

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