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

2. 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 prisoner is missing a leg and says he should only count as 1/2 a person.
(d) One warden has trouble counting past twenty.

3. Why is Ginzburg's watch inaccurate?
(a) The dampness of the prison has rusted it.
(b) She forgot to wind it sometimes in prison and only guessed at the time when resetting it.
(c) Its battery is run down.
(d) It has not been wound since she entered prison.

4. What does Livanov ask Ginzburg concerning Elvov?
(a) Why Ginzburg wrote several letters to Elvov supporting his ideas.
(b) If Elvov ever passed secret documents to Ginzburg.
(c) How Ginzburg knew Elvov.
(d) Whether Elvov and Ginzburg were having an affair.

5. What happens when the Chinese prisoner laughs?
(a) She is shot.
(b) She is put in solitary confinement.
(c) The entire cell block erupts in laughter.
(d) She is whipped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?

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

3. What are the sounds in the middle of the night?

4. What is Ginzburg's prison cell number at Yaroslavl?

5. Who is Alyosha?

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