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

2. What does Milda encourage Ginzburg to do?
(a) To stop up her ears with cotton.
(b) To teach her to read.
(c) To rat on other prisoners.
(d) To sing when she wakes in the morning.

3. What does Ginzburg say is at the base of the walls in her cell?
(a) Blood stains.
(b) Mementos of previous prisoners.
(c) Names and dates sculpted on the stone.
(d) Mold.

4. What does Ginzburg say in her letter to the secret police?
(a) She criticizes them for their methods.
(b) She confesses to everything of which she is accused.
(c) She asks forgiveness from the party.
(d) She absolves her family in her crimes.

5. What does Ginzburg do when she explodes in anger at this latest charge?
(a) Denounces her husband.
(b) Denounces Yaroslavsky.
(c) Curses Stalin.
(d) Tries to kill herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incenses Ginzburg about how her answers are recorded?

2. What does Ginzburg consider as she is traveling back to Moscow?

3. Where is Ginzburg sent at the opening of Chapter 19?

4. Who is Alyosha?

5. What is the criminal offense of which Ginzburg is now accused?

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