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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 returned to Ginzburg?
(a) Her watch.
(b) Her money.
(c) Her dentures.
(d) Her papers.

2. How many hours a day is Ginzburg confined to her cell?
(a) 22.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

3. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?
(a) In the Gulag.
(b) Dead.
(c) At his home.
(d) In the same cellar as Ginzburg.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?

2. What does Ginzburg say is at the base of the walls in her cell?

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

4. What is significant about the date February 15, 1937?

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

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