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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. 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.

2. What do the wardens do for counting prisoners?
(a) They count tin cups.
(b) They have each prisoner write his/her name on a piece of paper.
(c) They have the prisoners line up on their name in a hallway.
(d) They count pairs of feet.

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

4. What does Tsarevsky say about Elvov?
(a) He has killed himself.
(b) He has said Ginzburg contacted him about killing another party member.
(c) He has confessed to participating in a plot against Stalin.
(d) He has confessed against Ginzburg.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Elvov now according to Tsarevsky?

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

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

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

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